Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill ...

Editorial: No matter what one’s underlying position on the death penalty, Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision to use nitrogen gas as ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier was executed by nitrogen gas hypoxia in Alabama for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown. Frazier was the fourth inmate to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that has ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Nitrogen hypoxia, which is the suffocation of a person using the gas, has only been used four ... If approved and signed into law, Arkansas would join Alabama and other states that allow the ...

Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

The group Jews Against Gassing gathered on the steps of the Touro Synagogue to protest against the state's plan to execute ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It’s been 15 years since anyone on death row in Louisiana was executed. That could change next month. The first death sentence since 2010 is set to be carried out on Monday, ...