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 ...

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

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

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

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

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

A federal judge on Friday reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died from "natural causes," the state corrections department said. He was convicted of murder in ...

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