A newly proposed bill that would allow the use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution in Arkansas has officially passed ...

Companion animal euthanizations used to employ nitrogen hypoxia; however, after years of advocacy, all but two states have ...

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

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

Jeff Landry to turn away from the method, and for the state to ban its use. The state announced a new protocol that includes ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a ...

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

After having been convicted of a murder in 1988, Kenny Smith was put to death by a never-before-used method— nitrogen hypoxia ...

Louisiana followed Alabama in endorsing nitrogen hypoxia last year as a method of execution. Alabama has executed four people to date using nitrogen gas. Hoffman's attorneys point to witness ...

Death row inmate 81-year-old Christopher Sepulvado was set to die for the 1992 beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old ...

BATON ROUGE, LA – After a 15-year hiatus, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has announced his administration’s intent to resume ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The group Jews Against Gassing gathered on the steps of the Touro Synagogue to protest against the state’s plan to execute death row inmates using nitrogen hypoxia.