Nitrogen gas is banned in Louisiana to euthanize dogs. The state plans to use it to kill a death row inmate next month - ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol to Hoffman, depriving him of his rights. It also alleges executing Hoffman ...