A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s nitrogen gas execution protocol is a public record as the federal ...

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

A group of veterinarians and animal welfare providers in Louisiana gathered to share their opposition to the state's decision ...

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

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

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

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

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

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

This is a state that hasn't executed anybody in 15 years, and suddenly there’s this rush to kill,’ Jessie Hoffman’s attorney ...

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

Execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the technical term for the method, is carried out by placing a mask over the condemned’s face and replacing the flow of oxygen with pure nitrogen gas “for a ...