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 ...

Once again, Arizona stands at a crossroad in its often-troubled history with capital punishment. Republican state legislators have proposed expanding the state’s methods of execution to include lethal ...

Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen gas or a firing squad. What's Undetermined: The legislation failed to pass. If it had become law ...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way for other ...

A conservative anti-death penalty group is calling on Arkansas to forgo executions, citing concerns about a new form of capital punishment that critics describe as cruel. Known as nitrogen hypoxia, ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Nitrogen gas was used in an execution for the first time last week, and this state's attorney general has made a legal effort to add the new method. Ohio's Republican attorney general put his weight ...

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.