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

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

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

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

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

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

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

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.

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

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

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