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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas. Demetrius ...

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

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

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

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