Alabama is in line to become the first state to execute an inmate by making him breathe pure nitrogen, but death penalty experts have told Newsweek that the state's protocol is "sloppy" and labeled it ...

Update: Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday, Jan. 25. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. If Kenneth Eugene Smith is brought to the Alabama death chamber to ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, ...

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Friday vowed to continue using nitrogen gas in executions and offered to assist other states interested in the novel method, while fending off ...

Editor's note: The first sentence of this story has been updated to attribute information to an attorney representing the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections. An attorney ...

When Louisiana carries out the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18, he will be strapped to a gurney, fitted with a gas mask and forced to breathe in nitrogen gas until his heart stops. It will be ...

The day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: “Alabama has done ...

Rev. Jeff Hood wears a mask similar to those used in nitrogen gas executions in Louisiana and Alabama. Credit: Arielle Robinson Several activists who oppose the death penalty gathered at the chapel ...

ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at ...

Kenneth Smith was the first American to be executed by nitrogen gas last week. Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow execution by nitrogen gas, a controversial practice critics call ...