Alabama has scheduled an August execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.

Alabama inmate David Phillip Wilson filed a lawsuit similar to Hoffman's last month claiming the state’s plan to execute him using nitrogen gas violates the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman with nitrogen gas despite last-ditch efforts by his legal team claiming the method violated his religious freedoms.. Hoffman, who had been ...

About 30 inmates chose nitrogen gas hypoxia before the method was ever used. If an inmate did not choose a method, the fall back was lethal injection. The third method of execution in Alabama is ...

HB1489 was signed into law by Arkansas Gov. Sanders. The bill allows nitrogen hypoxia executions, changing the state's approach to capital punishment.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executes a man by nitrogen gas for the beating death of a woman in 1988. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, ...

In this file photo, officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Ala., on Aug. 5, 1999. Miller is scheduled to be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia on Sept ...