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

A group of veterinarians and animal welfare providers in Louisiana gathered to share their opposition to the state's decision ...

A newly proposed bill that would allow the use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution in Arkansas has officially passed ...

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

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

Demetrius Terrence Frazier was executed by nitrogen gas hypoxia in Alabama for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown. Frazier was the fourth inmate to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that has ...

After having been convicted of a murder in 1988, Kenny Smith was put to death by a never-before-used method— nitrogen hypoxia ...

Execution by nitrogen hypoxia, the technical term for the method, is carried out by placing a mask over the condemned’s face and replacing the flow of oxygen with pure nitrogen gas “for a ...

The bill would add nitrogen hypoxia to the list of alternatives to lethal injection available, alongside the electric chair.

Death row inmate 81-year-old Christopher Sepulvado was set to die for the 1992 beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The group Jews Against Gassing gathered on the steps of the Touro Synagogue to protest against the state’s plan to execute death row inmates using nitrogen hypoxia.

BATON ROUGE, LA – After a 15-year hiatus, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has announced his administration’s intent to resume ...