A ruling Thursday by the Alabama Supreme Court moved the state closer to executing an inmate in a way no state has ever done. Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia method, five years in the making, would use a ...

Unless the courts intervene, a death-row inmate in Alabama is scheduled on Thursday to become the first person in the U.S. to be executed using an untested method: nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama’s ...

Update: Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday, Jan. 25. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. The top human rights official at the United Nations is calling on ...

'Our products are intended to support, protect and save lives,' Dräger's chairman tells MarketWatch ahead of Alabama's second nitrogen-gas execution A major gas-mask manufacturer this week said it ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama has scheduled an October execution by nitrogen gas for an inmate who has an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new method as unconstitutionally cruel. Alabama Gov. Kay ...