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Rev. Jeff Hood wears a mask similar to those used in nitrogen gas executions in Louisiana and Alabama. Credit: Arielle Robinson Several activists who oppose the death penalty gathered at the chapel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a ...

Attorneys for the state and for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. agreed Thursday to unseal a redacted version of Louisiana's new protocol for using nitrogen gas in executions, shedding public light ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who is scheduled to become the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas, testified in federal court on Friday to ask that the state find another way. Hoffman, 46, ...

Ten Arkansas death row inmates filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas. The law, signed this year by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, grants prison ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana officials have unsealed a redacted version of the state’s execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, providing the first public look at how the state plans ...