Nitrogen hypoxia, the execution method being planned in Alabama, can cause rapid unconsciousness by starving the brain of oxygen. Alabama authorities were due to execute death row inmate Alan Miller ...

Update: Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday, Jan. 25. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. If Kenneth Eugene Smith is brought to the Alabama death chamber to ...

Filling one's tires with nitrogen is one of those things, like rubbing cheetah's blood on your engine block, that's taken on almost mythological status among gearheads. The inert gas nitrogen is given ...

The first person to be executed in America by way of nitrogen gas was Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama, just over a year ago. Witnesses said Smith writhed and seized for several torturous minutes ...

A colorless, odorless gas, Nitrogen is a non-hydrocarbon inert gas used for a variety of functions in the drilling, workover and completion phases of oil and gas wells, as well as in pigging and ...

A federal judge heard arguments regarding the use of nitrogen gas for execution in Alabama, with diverging views on its humaneness and risks. Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire ...

A man who murdered a woman during a gas station robbery will be put to death in Alabama with nitrogen gas. The execution of Geoffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled for Thursday night at south Alabama’s ...

With each breath, four out of every five molecules we inhale are nitrogen. This colourless, odourless gas makes up nearly 80% of the air that sustains us – yet it plays no direct role in keeping us ...

Alabama became the third state to allow the execution of prisoners by nitrogen gas Thursday after Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation permitting the practice as an alternative to lethal ...

Fritz Haber: good guy or bad guy? He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his part in developing the Haber-Bosch process, a method for generating ammonia using the nitrogen gas in air. The ...

After an ongoing shortage of execution drugs that has left states scrambling, Oklahoma authorities have announced that it will use nitrogen gas to execute death-row inmates. Death by nitrogen ...