Louisiana carried out its first execution in 15 years on Tuesday evening, using nitrogen gas for the first time amid Catholic criticism of both the death penalty itself and the mode of execution.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for Louisiana to resume plans to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. next week with nitrogen gas. The New Orleans-based federal ...

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Jessie Hoffman Jr. was executed in Louisiana on Tuesday. His lawyers tried to argue the method was unconstitutional ...

Though a judge blocked the execution last week over concerns about the constitutionality of the nitrogen gas method, the ruling was quickly overturned on appeal. Another judge denied him on Tuesday.

Arkansas became the fifth state to authorize nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution Tuesday, after Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation codifying the controversial method ...

WASHINGTON — Congress is careening toward a government shutdown in just 11 days as the discord between the two parties over funding talks grows, with no clear path to reach a deal. The ...

The method of using lethal gas to carry out an execution has recently shifted from cyanide to nitrogen. Throughout history, the states have used five different execution methods: lethal ...

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