The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman.

Now that Arkansas has officially approved nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's ...

Just last month, Louisiana carried out its first execution ... "The Eighth Circuit court was upheld nitrogen hypoxia as constitutional. Each case will still be reviewed, but I expect it to stand ...

Jessie Hoffman was the first person the state put to death using nitrogen hypoxia, a method the state legislature and Gov. Jeff Landry approved last year. Louisiana followed Alabama’s lead in ...

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On March 18, 2025, Louisiana performed its first execution in 15 years using a controversial execution method called nitrogen hypoxia. The condemned individual, 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman, spent 26 ...

Louisiana said Hoffman would be the state's first inmate to undergo a nitrogen hypoxia execution. However, Hoffman argued that the relatively new execution method is cruel and unusual punishment ...

"It went flawless," Secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Public Safety Gary Westcott said. "There was nothing that happened incorrectly." Nitrogen hypoxia was approved by the state legislature ...

The US state of Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death ... Last year, the court declined to intervene in the nation’s first nitrogen hypoxia execution, in Alabama. Hoffman’s lawyers had ...

The US state of Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put ... Last year, the court declined to intervene in the nation’s first nitrogen hypoxia execution, in Alabama. Hoffman’s lawyers had ...