Bill allowing executions via nitrogen hypoxia passes Arkansas House committee
A newly proposed bill that would allow the use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution in Arkansas has officially passed ...
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Execution witness challenges Arkansas bill allowing nitrogen hypoxia method
After having been convicted of a murder in 1988, Kenny Smith was put to death by a never-before-used method— nitrogen hypoxia ...
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Bill allowing nitrogen gas for executions forwarded by House Judiciary
A bill allowing for nitrogen hypoxia to be used as a criminal execution method for the Arkansas Department of Corrections ...
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Arkansas House committee advances bill to allow nitrogen gas executions
The bill would add nitrogen hypoxia to the list of alternatives to lethal injection available, alongside the electric chair.
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Arkansas Lawmakers Consider Nitrogen Suffocation Execution Method
House Bill 1489 would expand Arkansas' execution alternatives to lethal injection which, as of now, includes the electric ...
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Proposed legislation would add nitrogen gas to execution methods in Arkansas
Nitrogen hypoxia, which is the suffocation of a person using the gas, has only been used four times in the United States for an execution. If approved and signed into law, Arkansas would join ...
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Bill to allow nitrogen-gas executions raises legal, medical questions
Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.
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Arkansas bill would allow the use of nitrogen gas in executions
in addition to other methods used in Arkansas. Nitrogen hypoxia is a process where nitrogen gas is inhaled to the point of suffocation. The bill also states that a death sentence “shall not be ...