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

Alabama inmate David Phillip Wilson filed a lawsuit similar to Hoffman's last month claiming the state’s plan to execute him using nitrogen gas violates the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel ...

In 1997, Guinness released the floating, spherical widget you can find in cans today — which they call the "smoothifier" — to fix this problem. Carbon dioxide vs. nitrogen in beer. Breweries ...

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.

Death by nitrogen gas may take 10 minutes, Groner estimated. That is quicker than some lethal-injection procedures that have dragged on for hours, he said. By comparison, ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust.

Louisiana is scheduled to use nitrogen gas in an execution for the first time tonight. Here's what to know ahead of the expected execution of Jessie Hoffman, Jr., age 46. Louisiana state law ...

A federal judge has blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas for an execution planned next week. Judge Shelley Dick made the ruling following Jessie Hoffman's request for a different execution ...

Second nitrogen gas execution set to go ahead in Alabama. Alan Miller, 59, is scheduled to be put to death in September . Michelle Del Rey. Tuesday 06 August 2024 19:34 BST.

Alan E. Miller, convicted in three 1999 murders, appeared to shake and gasp after the gas began flowing, media witnesses said. The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar ...

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.