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 terror” ...

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 ...

Execution by nitrogen suffocation is experimental and an affront to humans' inherent dignity, a group of faith leaders said during a Thursday news conference at the state Capitol in which they called ...

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions. Sotomayor — joined by Justices Ketanji ...