On the day that Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the inmate are hoping for a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On the day that Louisiana's first execution in 15 years is scheduled to take place, attorneys for the ...

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

James Osgood, a 55-year-old death row inmate, was convicted of the 2010 rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person on death row in the United States, all in Alabama — which is the only other state where there is a protocol for the specific ...

Convicted murderer Kenneth Smith endured a botched execution attempt in Alabama before he was eventually killed via nitrogen ...

Death by nitrogen gas is currently permitted in four states: Alabama, Louisiana ... became the seventh death row execution in the country this year. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said ...

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Tuesday, all in Alabama. Last year, the method was used to execute Carey Dale Grayson for the killing of Vickie DeBlieux ...