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Execution witness challenges Arkansas bill allowing nitrogen hypoxia method
After having been convicted of a murder in 1988, Kenny Smith was put to death by a never-before-used method— nitrogen ...
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Arkansas Lawmakers Consider Nitrogen Suffocation Execution Method
House Bill 1489 would expand Arkansas' execution alternatives to lethal injection which, as of now, includes the electric ...
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As state lawmakers consider execution by nitrogen, a witness describes the horror
Priest Jeff Hood on North Little Rock shares an eyewitness account of the torturous nitrogen execution he witnessed in ...
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Proposed legislation would add nitrogen gas to execution methods in Arkansas
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 ...
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Arkansas bill would allow the use of nitrogen gas in executions
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 ...
Louisiana resuming executions after 15 years, issues first protocol for nitrogen hypoxia
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.