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 ...

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 ...

Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man ... state officials said. The execution was the second to use the new method Alabama first employed in January, when Kenneth Smith was put ...

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama is preparing to carry out the nation’s second nitrogen gas execution Thursday as disagreements continue over the humaneness of the new method of putting prisoners to death.

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 ...

Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for the beating death of a woman in 1988. Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at a ...

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

While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall ...

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