House Bill 1489 would expand Arkansas' execution alternatives to lethal injection which, as of now, includes the electric ...

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 ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

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

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

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.

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

A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson has died.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to be the state’s first execution in 15 years had filed a ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.