COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost expressed on Monday his support for a bill that would legalize execution by nitrogen hypoxia in Ohio, while claiming private companies are withholding ...

NEW ORLEANS — In your Breakdown: explaining the international uproar over nitrogen hypoxia, as Louisiana aims to put an inmate to death by gassing for the first time. Last March, in a bill backed by ...

Louisiana executed Jessie Hoffman Jr. by nitrogen hypoxia Tuesday night, making him the first person killed in the state by this method. Photo courtesy of Louisiana Attorney General Liz ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has set a time frame for the state to execute David Lee Roberts between midnight Aug. 21 and 6 a.m. Aug. 22. Roberts will be executed by nitrogen hypoxia for the capital murder ...

Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be ...

Louisiana officials have unsealed a redacted version of the state’s execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, providing the ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to ...

A district judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop the execution last week, but a federal appeals court overturned the ruling on March 14, allowing it to continue AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File A ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...

(CNN) — The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices on Thursday laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological ...

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights Giles Clarke/Getty A Louisiana inmate was scheduled to be the first person ...

“Dedicated efforts and investments by EPA, Connecticut, New York and local governments have drastically reduced the amount of ...