It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

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

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

He also declined a final meal. It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama. Three other executions, by lethal injection ...

Until Tuesday, only one state, Alabama, had used nitrogen gas to put inmates to death. The state made history last year with its first such execution, and has conducted three others using nitrogen ...

enacting laws shrouding the source of lethal injection drugs and other details. Critics worry that the state is not required to disclose the type or source of nitrogen gas it would use. Alabama ...

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed House Bill 1489 on Tuesday, making Arkansas the fifth state to permit executions by use of nitrogen gas. The signing of this legislation coincides ...