House Bill 36 is proposed legislation that would add nitrogen hypoxia as a method of the death penalty in Ohio.

Hoffman has been arguing that he shouldn't be executed by nitrogen gas because it violates his religious freedoms. Molly Elliott's husband told USA TODAY that he was in favor of Hoffman's execution if ...

The adoption of the method came just hours before Louisiana ended a 15-year pause on capital punishment with the nitrogen gas execution of Jessie Hoffman, marking the first time the method has been ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

More states are struggling to obtain the more common lethal injection drugs. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving to ...

Florida may soon expand its approved methods of execution to include firing squads and nitrogen gas, following a wave of national changes and growing legal challenges tied to lethal injection.

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

If passed, Florida would join five other states that allow execution by firing squad and several others that allow nitrogen gas. Last month, Brad Keith Sigmon became the first inmate in South ...

TALLAHASSEE — People sentenced to death in Florida could be executed by firing squads, nitrogen gas or other methods under a bill that expands Florida’s death penalty tactics. Florida allows for ...

(AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year ...