Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation allowing the state to carry out executions using nitrogen gas.

Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen there after an eight-year pause in executions. The use of nitrogen gas ...

Arkansas became the fifth state to authorize ... Louisiana ended a 15-year pause on capital punishment with the nitrogen gas execution of Jessie Hoffman, marking the first time the method has ...

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the fifth state to approve the method.

The introduction of nitrogen gas as a method of execution comes as the death penalty has become something of a dead letter in Arkansas, primarily because the state is having trouble acquiring the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark — The Arkansas Senate has approved a bill allowing executions using nitrogen gas, advancing House Bill 1489 closer to becoming law. The proposal cleared the Senate on Tuesday ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row, has died ...

On the same day, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders signed a bill into state law allowing nitrogen gas to be used on death row ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A bill to authorize nitrogen gas as an execution method in Arkansas is picking up steam at the state capitol after the House passed it on a 67-23 vote on Tuesday.

Now, some states are following suit. Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen there after an eight-year pause in ...