Guinness revolutionized both draft beer systems and how stouts are canned. The key? Nitrogen, and a modified ping pong ball.

A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.

Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the method and why its controversial.

(NewsNation) — What is it like to be executed by nitrogen gas? Dr. Jonathan Groner, a medical ethicist who studies capital punishment, has not witnessed an execution using this method, but he ...

In a controversial decision, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that nitrogen gas does not fall under the definition of being a poison. This is despite a finding in the case that a man died from ...

The plastic ball in the Guinness can, also called a "widget," ensures the draught stout has its classic foamy head, as if it were poured from the tap.

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman using nitrogen gas for the first time tonight. Here's what to know ahead of the execution.

Alabama conducted the second execution in the United States using nitrogen gas on Thursday, with media witnesses describing the prisoner shaking and gasping for several minutes before dying on the ...

A federal judge has blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas for an execution planned next week.

Alabama’s second nitrogen gas execution is set to go ahead as planned after a death row inmate agreed to drop further litigation against the state as part of a settlement agreement.

What is nitro beer? Here, an explanation of why brewers are infusing beer with nitrogen gas, and a list of the best nitro stouts and porters to try, including Guinness and Sam Adams's nitro stouts.

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's third execution using nitrogen gas.