Governor Sarah Sanders signed into law House Bill 1489, a bill that has been debated over the past few weeks due to its ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first execution in 15 years.

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state ... secretary of the the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

Executioners then placed a nitrogen gas mask on his face. Officials administered nitrogen gas, which flowed for 19 minutes. It marked the first nitrogen gas execution in Louisiana and the state ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening ... Seth Smith, chief of operations at the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, witnessed the execution ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections may have used ... which was done with the use of nitrogen gas, appear to show cylinders of compressed gas produced by Airgas may have ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation Tuesday allowing executions using nitrogen gas, making Arkansas the fifth state to adopt a method that opponents say is ...

Convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman became the first death row inmate in Louisiana, and only the fifth in the United States, to be executed using nitrogen gas on Tuesday. Hoffman ...

“It went flawless,” Secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Public Safety Gary Westcott said. “There was nothing that happened incorrectly.” Nitrogen hypoxia was approved by the state ...