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

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 ...

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

Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Louisiana is set to put a condemned man to death using nitrogen gas Tuesday evening in its first execution since 2010, which ...

United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that 39-year-old Sharhonda Law of Haughton, La. has been sentenced to ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, March 18, at Angola State Prison in West Feliciana ...

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

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...