Eight inmates on Alabama’s Death Row have filed lawsuits challenging the state’s nitrogen execution method, calling it unconstitutional. The lawsuits, all filed separately, were each filed in federal ...

Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

Arkansas became the fifth state to authorize nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution Tuesday, after Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation codifying the controversial method into ...

EXECUTIONS HERE IN LOUISIANA, SEVERAL METHODS HAVE BEEN USED OVER THE YEARS. SO EARLY ON DURING OUR EARLY STATEHOOD AND COLONIAL PERIOD, HANGING WAS THE PRIMARY METHOD. IT WAS A PUBLIC SPECTACLE TO ...

Louisiana is planning to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a highly contested nitrogen gassing method that it doesn’t even permit to be used against dying cats and dogs under state law.

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights Giles Clarke/Getty A Louisiana inmate was scheduled to be the first person ...

SHAWANDA JONES HAS MORE. CASSY. BEFORE TODAY’S DECISION CAME DOWN, I SPOKE WITH GOVERNOR LANDRY JUST A FEW HOURS AGO, AND HE SAYS THIS IS MORE THAN JUST AN EXECUTION. HE SAYS THIS IS A MESSAGE TO ...

A Louisiana inmate was scheduled to be the first person executed via nitrogen gas in that state, but the man's fate is now in limbo after the controversial method was blocked by a federal judge.

BATON ROUGE, La. — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out ...

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 to the ...

Louisiana will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, forging ahead on plans set in motion last spring to carry out death sentences using nitrogen hypoxia. The office of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled its fourth execution by nitrogen gas as critics continue to argue the new method needs additional scrutiny. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday set a Feb. 7 ...