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There are contrasting accounts of the first U.S. execution by nitrogen gas, but most witnesses agreed on one thing: It did not go as Alabama had promised.

Ohio’s Republican attorney-general has put his weight behind a legislative effort to bring nitrogen gas executions to the US state, joining what could be a...

“How many digital quahogs do I have to dig a day to make a day’s pay?” asked Mark Johnson, concluding the fifth meeting of the Special Legislative Commission to Study and Provide …

Recent research has highlighted the effects of human-induced pollutants on the marine phosphorus cycle within coastal seas, shedding new light on the repercussions of human activities on coastal ecosystems. Click to read more...

After an Alabama man was put to death with nitrogen gas in what was described as a lengthy and agonizing execution, many have criticized this method of capital punishment as inhumane. Others, however, think the procedure is in line with what convicted killers deserve. The Onion asked Americans why they think nitrogen…

The first execution using nitrogen gas in the US has put the spotlight on the country's use of capital punishment. During Nitrogen hypoxia, the inmate breathes pure Nitrogen through a respirator mask and the breathing is replaced with pure Nitrogen.

Warning: Graphic content. As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die...

"The world is watching," Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned before Kenny Smith was put to death Thursday

Alabama officials said the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution was a model for other states. Critics called it appalling and far from what the state promised.

Kenneth Smith was put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now an attorney general vows to help other states