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.

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

Executions using nitrogen gas will soon be legal in Arkansas if the governor signs the legislation into law. House Bill 1489 passed in the Senate on Tuesday. Having already cleared the House, the bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen there after an eight-year pause in executions.The use of nitrogen gas is one way for death penalty states to resume executions after being ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers advanced legislation to authorize nitrogen gas as an execution method. Supporters say it will allow executions to resume in a state that hasn’t put ...

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 ...

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, Ark. (AP) — Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation Tuesday allowing executions using nitrogen gas, making Arkansas the fifth state to adopt a method that opponents say is ...