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

After having been convicted of a murder in 1988, Kenny Smith was put to death by a never-before-used method— nitrogen hypoxia ...

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

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

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

Nitrogen hypoxia, which is the suffocation of a person using the gas, has only been used four times in the United States for an execution. If approved and signed into law, Arkansas would join ...

in addition to other methods used in Arkansas. Nitrogen hypoxia is a process where nitrogen gas is inhaled to the point of suffocation. The bill also states that a death sentence “shall not be ...

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

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

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.

“Mr. Frazier chose to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia in June 2018 and we will honor his request," the office said in a statement. Frazier could have chosen either electrocution or lethal ...

It is with deep sadness and a sense of disgust we see that after decades Louisiana will restart executions of its death row prisoners, and it will use the method of nitrogen hypoxia. No matter ...