Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs nitrogen gas execution into law with additional bills

Arkansas governor signs legislation permitting executions by nitrogen gas

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed House Bill 1489 on Tuesday, making Arkansas the fifth state to permit executions by use of nitrogen gas. The signing of this legislation coincides with Louisiana’s first execution by this method of Jessie Hoffman the same day. Titled “An Act to Amend the Method of Execution to Include Nitrogen Gas” (“the Act”), § 1 of the Act replaces the term “punished by death by lethal injection” to more general…

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders legalizes controversial nitrogen gas execution method

Sanders signed the law hours before Louisiana executed its first inmate with the nitrogen gas method. Arkansas is now the fifth state to approve the method.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs nitrogen gas execution into law with additional bills

Alabama prepares to carry out first US execution by nitrogen gas LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed multiple bills, including one allowing nitrogen gas executions, into law on Tuesday. House Bill 1489, now Act 302, allows the state to use nitrogen gas hypoxia as a method of execution for condemned prisoners. The state can also choose to use lethal injection if the drugs are available. Louisiana man seeks las…

Arkansas governor signs legislation allowing executions by nitrogen gas – Newstalk KZRG

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation Tuesday allowing executions using nitrogen gas, making Arkansas the fifth state to adopt a method that opponents say is unconstitutional. The measure signed into law by the Republican governor has been promoted by supporters as a way to carry out executions for the first time in eight years. Arkansas currently has 25 people on death row. Arkansas has not had an execution since 2017, when it put four…

Arkansas became the fifth entity in the United States to adopt legislation that will allow for nitrogen gas executions. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the new legislation promoted by her supporters to carry out executions for the first time in eight years. Currently there are 25 people awaiting death in Arkansas.