So that was all expected and is in the side effects that we've seen, researched, with nitrogen hypoxia." The United Nations demanded that executions by nitrogen stop for a full review, saying the ...

In a nitrogen hypoxia execution, an inmate is forced to breathe pure nitrogen, displacing the air in their lungs. The United Nations has stated that execution by nitrogen asphyxiation is ...

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.

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 ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, an inmate in the US State of Alabama, Thursday became the first person ever to be put to death through the controversial nitrogen hypoxia ... by the United States Supreme ...

The protocol is nearly identical to that of Alabama, the first state to use nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution and has carried out four such executions. If the death penalty is carried out ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued against the capital punishment method of nitrogen hypoxia in a Baton Rouge federal court on Friday. The hearing occurred a week after Hoffman filed a ...