It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

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Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

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A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen gas, a method never used in the state before.

Alabama officials said the shaking and gasping are involuntary movements associated with oxygen deprivation. Attorneys for Louisiana remain adamant that nitrogen hypoxia is seemingly painless.