A group of inmates on death row in Arkansas filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new state law allowing the use of nitrogen gas in executions. That law, Act 302 of 2025, takes effect today. A lawyer ...

Scotty Gardner wants out of “his cave” at the Varner SuperMax Prison south of Grady, Arkansas. In messages with USA TODAY, he described the conditions of his cell as, “a walk-in closet with a shower, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Several Arkansas death row inmates sued the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas, saying the measure gives prison officials unconstitutionally ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Local faith leaders are calling on Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reconsider Arkansas's new death penalty law, which allows nitrogen gas executions. A handful of clergy members ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTAL/KMSS) – Faith leaders of Arkansas join together to stop the use of the gas method in executions. A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution. The state ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas death row inmates have filed a lawsuit against the state over a new law that allows it to execute them with nitrogen gas. Attorneys representing the inmates say Act 302 ...

Nearly half of Arkansas’ death-row inmates filed suit on Tuesday in Little Rock to bar the state from executing them with nitrogen gas, with the litigation coming on the same day that the new ...