Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol ...

A group of veterinarians and animal welfare providers in Louisiana gathered to share their opposition to the state’s decision ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.

Attorneys argued that nitrogen gas executions are "cruel and unusual punishment," noting that veterinarians have banned them ...

A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas in the coming weeks.

The new protocol will allow for death sentences to be carried out again after a 15-year pause and builds ... the specialized mask for administration of the nitrogen will be fitted onto the inmate." ...

Prof. Chengcai Chu and his team from South China Agricultural University have systematically summarized the process of ...

For the past 15 years, Louisiana had paused executions due to a lack of political interest and inability to secure lethal injection drugs. But with a nitrogen gas execution protocol finalized this ...