Arkansas Death-Sentenced Prisoners File Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of State’s New Nitrogen Gas Execution Law | Death Penalty Information Center

Arkansas Death-Sentenced Prisoners File Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of State’s New Nitrogen Gas Execution Law | Death Penalty Information Center

On August 5, 2025, a group of ten Arkansas death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing a new state law that autho­rizes their exe­cu­tion using nitro­gen gas. Act 302, which Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law in March 2025, went into effect on the same day the law­suit was filed. The pris­on­ers’ law­suit argues that the new law is uncon­sti­tu­tion­al because it vio­lates the state constitution’s sep­a­ra­tion of po…