(Louisiana First) — The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has adopted new execution protocols, including the use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of carrying out death ...

Attorneys for Louisiana remain adamant that nitrogen hypoxia is seemingly painless. Following last week's hearing, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the ...

The only available execution methods for carrying out capital punishment in Louisiana law are nitrogen hypoxia, lethal injection and electrocution. Attorneys for the state argued that nitrogen ...

Louisiana has "no readily available" electric chair and cannot acquire the drugs necessary for lethal injection, with the only viable alternatives as nitrogen hypoxia or firing squad, Dick wrote.

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center. Arkansas was added to the ...

The only execution methods for carrying out capital punishment listed in Louisiana law are nitrogen hypoxia, lethal injection and electrocution. For nearly two decades, the state has faced legal ...