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

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

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation allowing the state to carry out executions using nitrogen gas.

A Louisiana death row inmate on Tuesday was executed with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used before in the state ...

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

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

Before his execution, lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was 18 when he was convicted of the 1996 murder of a 28-year-old ...