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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

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 ...

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

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 ...