Arkansas lawmakers advanced legislation to authorize nitrogen gas as an execution method. Supporters say it will allow ...

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

Supporters say it will allow executions to resume in a state that hasn’t put anyone to death since it executed four inmates in 2017.

Arkansas currently only allows executions by lethal injection. If this bill becomes law, the state would join a small group of others permitting nitrogen hypoxia.

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He was 18 years old at the time. Hoffman’s execution is set to be carried out using nitrogen hypoxia, a method that replaces oxygen with nitrogen, causing death by suffocation. Louisiana adopted ...

Proponents of that legislation claimed that nitrogen hypoxia, which had been used only once in an execution, would be simpler and less likely to be botched than lethal injection. And, referring to ...