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

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

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

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

House Bill 1489 would expand Arkansas' execution alternatives to lethal injection which, as of now, includes the electric ...

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

Nitrogen hypoxia, which is the suffocation of a person using the gas, has only been used four times in the United States for an execution. If approved and signed into law, Arkansas would join ...

in addition to other methods used in Arkansas. Nitrogen hypoxia is a process where nitrogen gas is inhaled to the point of suffocation. The bill also states that a death sentence “shall not be ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.