Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set Nov. 21 as the date for what will be the third death sentence in the country to be carried out by nitrogen gas — and all will have happened in Alabama. The execution date for Carey Dale Grayson, 49, was scheduled after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that…
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News Alabama schedules second nitrogen gas execution
Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a Sept. 26 execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of killing three men during a 1999 workplace shooting. The execution…
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News Alabama pushes to use controversial nitrogen gas method in second execution
Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The…
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News Ohio could begin nitrogen gas executions under bill backed by attorney general
Ohio’s Republican Attorney General, Dave Yost, is backing a legislative effort to introduce nitrogen gas executions. The proposed Ohio bill would offer inmates a choice between lethal injection and nitrogen gas, with nitrogen gas mandated if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. Ohio hasn’t executed anyone since 2018, with Gov. Mike DeWine ruling out lethal injection…
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News White House ‘deeply troubled’ by Alabama’s execution of man using nitrogen gas
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News Was Alabama’s Nitrogen Execution ‘Textbook’ or Botched? Sides Are Divided.
A day after Alabama became the first state to execute a prisoner with nitrogen gas, officials vowed on Friday to continue using the method in executions despite witnesses’ accounts that the prisoner writhed on the gurney for at least two minutes. Two very different accounts of the execution emerged from the state’s death chamber in…
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News Alabama Hails Nitrogen Gas Execution, a New Attempt to Address an Old Challenge
For as long as America has had the death penalty, there have been questions about how best to carry it out. The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama on Thursday, the first American execution in which death was caused by suffocation with nitrogen gas, gave no indication of settling the legal, moral and technical…
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News Nitrogen Hypoxia: What to Know About This New Method of Execution
The planned execution of a death row inmate by the state of Alabama on Thursday evening will be carried out by a procedure that has never been used for capital punishment in the United States. The inmate, Kenneth Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 stabbing murder, will be put to death by inhaling nitrogen…
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News Alabama Is Set to Carry Out First U.S. Execution by Nitrogen
Alabama is set to carry out the first American execution using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, potentially opening a new frontier in how states execute death row prisoners despite concerns from death penalty opponents about the untested method. Several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have allowed the execution to move forward, though lawyers for…
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News Supreme Court Declines to Stop Nitrogen Execution in Alabama
The U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals court each declined on Wednesday to intervene to stop Alabama from conducting the nation’s first-ever execution by nitrogen gas, putting the state on track to use the novel method to kill a death row prisoner. Alabama plans to use nitrogen gas to kill Kenneth Smith, who was…
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