A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s nitrogen gas execution protocol is a public record as the federal ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

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

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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.

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 ...