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 ...

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the ...

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

A newly proposed bill that would allow the use of nitrogen gas as a method of execution has officially passed the House. Here ...

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

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 for euthanizing animals.

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.