House Bill 1489 would expand Arkansas' execution alternatives to lethal injection which, as of now, includes the electric ...

Attorneys argued that nitrogen gas executions are "cruel and unusual punishment," noting that veterinarians have banned them ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

A bill allowing for nitrogen hypoxia to be used as a criminal execution method for the Arkansas Department of Corrections ...

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...

Alabama has used nitrogen gas on three other inmates in the past year. Critics say it amounts to torture while proponents praise its effectiveness. If the execution proceeds, Frazier will be the ...

Priest Jeff Hood on North Little Rock shares an eyewitness account of the torturous nitrogen execution he witnessed in ...

The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade and the first by nitrogen gas, but ...

No one spoke in favor of the bill, while multiple legislators and Arkansans spoke against it. It passed anyway.

Jessie Hoffman, the death row inmate who could be the first man Louisiana puts to death by nitrogen gas, filed a new lawsuit late Tuesday seeking to stop his March 18 execution. The suit ...

A bill that would allow nitrogen gas to be used in state executions was endorsed Thursday by an Arkansas House of ...

The bill would add nitrogen hypoxia to the list of alternatives to lethal injection available, alongside the electric chair.