Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen ...

Arkansas lawmakers advanced legislation to authorize nitrogen gas as an execution method. Supporters say it will allow ...

From introducing an act to generate more jobs, and a bill aiming to allow nitrogen hypoxia executions, it has been another ...

Arkansas currently only allows executions by lethal injection. If this bill becomes law, the state would join a small group of others permitting nitrogen hypoxia.

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

Proponents of the method say this induces hypoxia — a lack ... The bill is silent as to how nitrogen gas would be administered, leaving that up to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.

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