BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick ...

Hoffman began practicing Buddhism while incarcerated, his lawyers say, and because meditative breathing is a key part of his practice, the mask used in a nitrogen gas execution prohibits his ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is asking the state Supreme Court to review and potentially expedite five death ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman is pictured in prison. He became the first inmate executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana after a judge temporarily halted it over concerns about the ...

Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a virtual buffet of ways to die: firing squad, nitrogen gas, the electric chair and still, lethal injection.

Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

Alabama has scheduled a September execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a gas station attendant during a ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at ...