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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's not in a rush to resume executions after signing legislation allowing the use ...
Now that Arkansas has officially approved nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she's ...
After having signed legislation allowing the use of nitrogen gas to put inmates to death, Gov. Sanders says she's not in a ...
If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...
More states are struggling to obtain the more common lethal injection drugs. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving to ...
TALLAHASSEE — People sentenced to death in Florida could be executed by firing squads, nitrogen gas or other methods under a bill that expands Florida’s death penalty tactics. Florida allows for ...
If passed, Florida would join five other states that allow execution by firing squad and several others that allow nitrogen gas. Last month, Brad Keith Sigmon became the first inmate in South ...
(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year ...
Hoffman has been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by nitrogen gas because it violates his religious freedoms. Molly Elliott's husband told USA TODAY that he was in favor of Hoffman's execution if ...
However, photographs of the equipment used in Hoffman’s execution, which was done with the use of nitrogen gas, appear to show cylinders of compressed gas produced by Airgas may have been used.
The adoption of the method came just hours before Louisiana ended a 15-year pause on capital punishment with the nitrogen gas execution of Jessie Hoffman, marking the first time the method has been ...