Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Alabama is set to execute Demetrius Terrence Frazier on Thursday using nitrogen gas, making it the nation’s fourth execution ...

Louisiana corrections officials have drafted and approved a new policy to allow the state to restart executing death row ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

Alabama last year became the first state to carry out an execution with nitrogen gas. Three inmates were put ... exhibited by the inmates were not a sign of suffering. “He never confronts ...

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

“Something is going wrong. Every inmate who has been executed by nitrogen gas has exhibited signs of consciousness beyond the 40 seconds [that was predicted by the state]," said Spencer ...

Demetrius Frazier is the fourth inmate in Alabama to be executed by nitrogen gas Alabama Department of ... Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLE's free True Crime ...

It discovered that the average annual roadside concentration of nitrogen dioxide was 65 micrograms per cubic metre last year, while the general concentration of the gas was 31.8 micrograms per ...

Attorneys for an Alabama inmate facing execution by nitrogen gas are asking ... the first three inmates showed signs of suffering from suffocation as the gas flowed. Demetrius Terrence Frazier ...