When Louisiana carries out the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18, he will be strapped to a gurney, fitted with a gas mask and forced to breathe in nitrogen gas until his heart stops. It will be ...

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The first person to be executed in America by way of nitrogen gas was Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama, just over a year ago. Witnesses said Smith writhed and seized for several torturous minutes ...

A group of inmates on death row in Arkansas filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new state law allowing the use of nitrogen gas in executions. That law, Act 302 of 2025, takes effect today. A lawyer ...

Alabama plans to carry out its fourth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Geoffrey Todd West to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for killing a woman during a robbery 28 years ago. This execution ...