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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Companion animal euthanizations used to employ nitrogen hypoxia; however, after years of advocacy, all but two states have ...

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

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