A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.

Taxes, not nitrogen, is top public enemy This past July, the Suffolk County Legislature declined to advance the 0.125% sales tax increase proposed for the November ballot that would have made ...

Politicians pushed for the nitrogen gas execution method with limited scientific research behind it. Critics say it could amount to torture.

The execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia was "textbook," Alabama's attorney general Steve Marshall said in a news conference on Friday. The execution was ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman using nitrogen gas for the first time tonight. Here's what to know ahead of the execution.

Nitrogen-using bacteria can cut farms’ greenhouse gas emissions Nitrogen fertilizers get converted to nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.

Alabama will be the first state to use nitrogen in an execution. If it goes smoothly, other states are likely to follow.

Alabama conducted the second execution in the United States using nitrogen gas on Thursday, with media witnesses describing the prisoner shaking and gasping for several minutes before dying on the ...

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 ...

When nitrogen gas started to flow, Kenny Smith's face grew more and more intense with every second.

Alabama intends to carry out the first known execution by nitrogen gas this week, when it’s scheduled to put to death Kenneth Smith some 14 months after failing to carry out his capital ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick ...