Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other ...

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.

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Alabama was the first state to approve and use nitrogen gas for an execution. Reverend Jeff Hood attended to the January 2024 ...

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

He was 18 years old at the time. Hoffman’s execution is set to be carried out using nitrogen hypoxia, a method that replaces oxygen with nitrogen, causing death by suffocation. Louisiana adopted ...

Proponents of that legislation claimed that nitrogen hypoxia, which had been used only once in an execution, would be simpler and less likely to be botched than lethal injection. And, referring to ...

Others, still, called for the complete end to all forms of the death penalty. Nitrogen hypoxia rarely has been used in the United States, with Alabama being the first state to use it in early 2024. No ...

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.