Recent executions in South Carolina and Louisiana have sparked more debate amongst Americans. Does Florida use nitrogen gas or firing squads?

Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom for a 2005 murder, marking the state's first execution of the year amid a week of multiple ...

Louisiana was scheduled to murder Jessie Hoffman by first immobilizing him by tying down his arms, hands, legs and torso on a ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections may have used compressed gas from a Pennsylvania company in the March ...

Louisiana ended its 15-year death penalty hiatus when it executed convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas.

An Oklahoma man convicted of killing a woman during a home robbery was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, the ...

Jessie Hoffman was executed on March 18 after a hard-fought legal battle went all the way to the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday evening, March 18, the state of Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr., putting him to death with nitrogen gas.

The state executed convicted murderer-rapist Jessie Hoffman Jr. on Tuesday night (March 18). Hoffman was the first inmate ...

Louisiana conducted its first execution in nearly 15 years by executing a man who killed a woman from Arizona.

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