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

Jessie Hoffman, who is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on March 18, has filed a new federal lawsuit challenging ...

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

Priest Jeff Hood on North Little Rock shares an eyewitness account of the torturous nitrogen execution he witnessed in ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn why Governor Landry established protocols to use nitrogen gas to carry out the death ...

The execution happens when the nitrogen gas kills by essentially strangling a person by taking away their oxygen. In theory ...

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