Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...
Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
A federal judge halted Louisiana from immediately moving forward with the state's nitrogen gas execution of death row inmate ...
Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...
Only four inmates have been executed with nitrogen gas in U.S. history, all in Alabama last year and this year. All the inmates in that state chose nitrogen gas over lethal injection and the ...
Hoffman is slated to be the first death row inmate outside of Alabama to be killed using nitrogen gas in the modern era. "Executions — especially those by experimental and gruesome methods ...
Indeed, critics have argued nitrogen hypoxia causes suffering, pointing in part to witness accounts that inmates shook on gurneys during recent gas executions in Alabama, the only US state that ...