Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the method and why its controversial.

After Alabama exported its nitrogen-gassing abomination to Louisiana — as I expanded on in these pages in March — and, after the state tortured Demetrius Frazier to death, in February, marking another ...

As Louisiana prepares for its first execution in 15 years, lawyers for a death row inmate are seeking a last-minute court order to stop the execution from happening. At such a critical moment in US ...

A man on death row is facing execution tonight by use of ... The method of execution has only been used in the American state of Alabama previously. Eyewitnesses to Alabama's four recorded ...

A death row inmate in the US state of Louisiana was executed by nitrogen inhalation, a method previously used only in neighbouring Alabama and compared by UN experts to a form of torture.

Attorney General Liz Murrill says that she expects at least four people on Louisiana's death row to be executed this ... which is nearly identical to Alabama's, officials had earlier said Hoffman ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill said she expects at least four people on Louisiana’s death row to be executed this ... which is nearly identical to Alabama’s, Hoffman is to be strapped to a ...