Nitrogen Hypoxia

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

People still say, "That’s not the Jessie I knew." But most didn’t know what he endured at home – and that’s likely what drove him on that day, psychiatrists say.

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening using nitrogen gas, which would be the first time Louisiana has used the method.

Dr. Joseph Antognini travels across the nation, being paid over $500 an hour by government officials who rely on him to vouch for their execution protocols.

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to block it earlier this month.

Faith activism against the state's plan to resume executions adds to a history of religious engagement with social questions in the South.

The group Jews Against Gassing say Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to execute people using nitrogen gas is a "painful echo" of the Holocaust.

As Alabama sets the course for the controversial execution method’s future, activists and legal scholars say eyewitness accounts could halt widespread adoption.

Despite criticism, state officials have defended the use of “nitrogen hypoxia” ahead of Alan Eugene Miller’s scheduled execution this week.