It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

In 2024, Alabama became the first state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas when it put Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to ...

Louisiana has carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution and its first execution in 15 years, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, marking the state’s return to capital ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

In the chamber with Hoffman was his spiritual advisor ... Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty ...

Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United ...

It lists all available execution methods — lethal injection, nitrogen hypoxia, electrocution and ... Before lethal injection, MDOC used the gas chamber for executions starting in 1954 when ...

In the chamber with Hoffman was his spiritual adviser ... Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty ...

In the chamber with Hoffman was his spiritual adviser ... Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty ...