The compound is known colloquially among recreational drug users as "whippets," "balloons," "hippie crack" or "Galaxy Gas," ...

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

In 2024, Alabama became the first state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas when it put Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, marking the state’s return to capital ...

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 ...

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