A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he ...

GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY RECENTLY APPROVED THE USE OF NITROGEN HYPOXIA AS AN EXECUTION METHOD FOR INMATES ON DEATH ROW. ZAPPALA WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST LOUISIANA INMATE EXECUTED WITH THE NEW METHOD ...

It is with deep sadness and a sense of disgust we see that after decades Louisiana will restart executions of its death row prisoners, and it will use the method of nitrogen hypoxia. No matter ...

But a recent and ongoing shortage of the drugs used in the killing method has led to a 15-year pause, leading some pro-death penalty officials and lawmakers to open the door for other ways to put ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented a protocol allowing sentences for death row inmates to be carried out using the nitrogen hypoxia method ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

His confession to that attack was read to two different juries and a judge who all sentenced him to death. The same 2021 state law that set electrocution as the state’s default method of execution ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth inmate in the U.S. to die by this execution method. Brad Sigmon, 67, who is ...

About 450 BC, the death penalty was often enforced by throwing the condemned into a quagmire. By the 10th Century, hanging from gallows was the most frequent execution method. William the ...