So that was all expected and is in the side effects that we've seen, researched, with nitrogen hypoxia." The United Nations ...

In her ruling, Dick said the court is tasked with answering the question: “Is nitrogen hypoxia cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment?” Dick went on to say that it is in the ...

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attorneys for Hoffman are turning to the United States Supreme Court to halt the execution. However, the court declined to intervene in the nation's first nitrogen hypoxia execution last year.

Long before the emergence of nitrogen hypoxia, gas executions had been undertaken in the United States, beginning in 1924 when Nevada used the gas chamber to put to death Gee Jon, a Chinese man ...