Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted a death sentence for the first time in her tenure Friday, sparing inmate Robin Dion "Rocky" Myers. The Alabama Supreme Court had cleared the way for Myers to ...

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

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

The US state of Alabama is now using nitrogen inhalation to kill death row inmates. The prisoner must inhale pure nitrogen, ...

From introducing an act to generate more jobs, and a bill aiming to allow nitrogen hypoxia executions, it has been another busy week at the Arkansas State Capitol.

The first person to be executed in America by way of nitrogen gas was Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama, just over a year ago. Witnesses said Smith writhed and seized for several torturous minutes ...

Jeff Landry established protocols to use nitrogen gas to execute people sentenced to death. Judges have set execution dates for at least two people on death row in Louisiana. Greg LaRose ...

No matter what one's underlying position on the death penalty is, the use of nitrogen gas as an execution method is unquestionably barbaric. Louisiana hasn’t imposed the death penalty since 2010 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A newly proposed bill by Republican lawmakers in Arkansas is looking to add nitrogen gas to the methods of execution for death row inmates. House Bill 1489 would add the gas ...

Louisiana will be using the controversial nitrogen gas method for its execution, marking the end of a 15-year hiatus on capital punishment in the state. Arizona will resume executions after ...