Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — On the same day Louisiana executed its first inmate using nitrogen gas, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill into state law to allow the form of execution to be used on death ...

After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a message to other states: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you." So ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

Opponents of capital punishment on Friday called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas' decision to allow nitrogen suffocation as a method of execution, calling the method inhumane and ...

An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, hanging or medical-aid-in-dying instead. Anthony Boyd has filed a ...

An Arkansas bill that would amend state law to include nitrogen suffocation as a form of execution for death row inmates has ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed House Bill 1489 into law on March 18, which amends Arkansas law to include nitrogen ...