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.

El Dorado High School held its annual Academic Signing Day for graduating seniors who will receive the El Dorado Promise.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation codifying the controversial method into law. The adoption of the method came just hours before Louisiana ended a 15-year pause on capital punishment with ...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation Tuesday allowing ... Three other states — Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma — have laws allowing it but have not employed the method so far.

Louisiana’s GOP-dominated Legislature expanded the state’s approved death penalty methods last year to include nitrogen hypoxia and electrocution. Lethal injection was already in place. On Tuesday, ...

March 19 (UPI) --Louisiana has carried out its first ... On Tuesday, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation making her state the fifth to approve the use of nitrogen gas to ...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation Tuesday allowing ... using the method since it began last year. And on Tuesday, Louisiana staged its first, putting to death a man convicted of killing ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man ... On Tuesday, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation allowing executions using nitrogen gas, making hers the fifth state to adopt ...