SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — After 15 years, Louisiana has resumed executions and joined three other states in a controversial new method. “Louisiana has decided that when you take a life in certain ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

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.

Governor Jeff Landry announced a state of emergency was declared and that Louisiana will start doing execution by nitrogen ...

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

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and effective manner.