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

Attorneys argued that nitrogen gas executions are "cruel and unusual punishment," noting that veterinarians have banned them ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

The first person executed this way was Kenneth Smith, who was put to death in late January, marking the state's first use of nitrogen gas for an execution. Although nitrogen hypoxia had ...

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method amounts to torture.

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

Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...

ATMORE, Ala. — The State of Alabama carried out its first execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Demetrius Terrence Frazier to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for the 1991 rape, robbery and murder ...

The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade and the first by nitrogen gas, but ...

No one spoke in favor of the bill, while multiple legislators and Arkansans spoke against it. It passed anyway.