Arkansas adopts nitrogen gas for execution despite some pushback

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’s 95th General Assembly delivered a wave of new legislation.

However, few measures sparked more controversy than the law Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed, approving nitrogen gas as a method of execution.

“These individuals, if they walk in our society and take lives, then I will protect life through this method,” said Sen. Johnson, as he defended the measure…

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