There were two options: lethal injection, the default method, which Alabama had been accused of botching in the prison's execution chamber; and nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental alternative that ...

The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar response. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Alabama conducted the second execution in the United States using nitrogen gas on Thursday ...

Gregory Hunt died Tuesday night by nitrogen hypoxia at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Hunt became the ...

Alabama followed through on its plans ... He noted similarities in witness accounts between the second nitrogen gas execution and the first — of Kenny Smith in January — which he witnessed ...

Alabama executed Kenneth Smith in January in the nation's first nitrogen gas execution. A second execution via nitrogen gas is set for Sept. 26 for Alan Eugene Miller. Miller recently reached a ...

The Nature Conservancy in Alabama and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation also announced on Tuesday that the 8,000-acre nature preserve in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta known as the “land between ...

And the terror only increases the way that the poem closes: ...

A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will ...

It was the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen gas. The execution method involves forcing an inmate to breathe pure ...

Before the procedure took place, he was asked whether he had any final words, to which he replied 'no' before giving a ...

Karen Lane was beaten to death by Gregory Hunt in 1988. On June 10, he became the fifth inmate executed by nitrogen gas.

Hunt's execution marks Alabama's third this year, on pace to match the six it carried out last year, and the fifth time it ...