In 1941, the method changed, and electrocution was used until 1991, when the electric chair became the official method, ...

Advocates for a death-row inmate in Louisiana have applauded a federal judge's decision to halt his execution using nitrogen gas. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary ...

All the inmates in that state chose nitrogen gas over lethal injection and the electric chair, while Louisiana made the decision to execute ... Hoffman's execution in Louisiana was just one of ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama ...

Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it doesn’t even permit to be used against dying cats and dogs under state ...

“Louisiana’s method of execution does not cause pain itself,” he wrote, ... replacing the electric chair, which did not require anyone who looked like a physician to pull the lever.

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% ...

Louisiana plans to begin executing people on death row using nitrogen gas, Gov. Jeff Landry said Monday. The state has approved a new protocol that includes execution by nitrogen hypoxia, he said.

THE ELECTRIC CHAIR BECAME THE OFFICIAL METHOD, ... The first execution in Louisiana after a 15-year pause will take place Tuesday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came stopping the execution came just one week before Jessie Hoffman, 46, was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in ...

Louisiana has "no readily available" electric chair and cannot acquire the drugs necessary for lethal injection, with the only viable alternatives as nitrogen hypoxia or firing squad, Dick wrote.