Louisiana's mask is a full-face respirator similar to those often used by painters and sandblasters. Since nitrogen gas was first used to execute Kenneth Smith in Alabama, fervent debate has ...

Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it doesn’t even permit to be used against dying cats and dogs under state ...

Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney, fitted with a full-face respirator mask and forced to breathe nitrogen gas until his heart stops. Louisiana state courts The decision followed similar rulings ...

Hoffman is to be strapped to a gurney and have a full-face respirator mask — similar to what is used by painters and sandblasters — fitted tightly on him. Pure nitrogen gas is then to be ...

The state of Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening ... Justice Gorsuch said that claim was never weighed in full by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...