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The use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution in the United States, including its constitutionality and the challenges it faces in federal and state courts.
Multiple bills filed in the 2025–2026 would beyond lethal injection — most prominently Senate Bill 11 to reauthorize execution by and House Bill 1119 to add firing squad and as options — while additio...
Several states have written or more generalized “lethal gas” options into law or into proposed bills; , and are among the earliest adopters on the books, Alabama is the only state that had developed a...
Federal and state courts have so far declined to categorically enjoin , applying the ’s method‑of‑execution framework that requires inmates to identify a feasible, readily implemented alternative and ...
Two states are known to have issued formal, operational documents describing how would be carried out: published a heavily redacted execution protocol that was used in practice and spells out steps su...
Federal courts have produced conflicting rulings on whether gas‑chamber executions violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment: a 1994 district court decision—affirmed by a un...