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

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

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

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

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

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

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

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

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin Meyers, a first for her time in office and the first commutation ...

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.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...