Alabama Department of Corrections via AP and AP Alabama executed a death row prisoner Thursday using nitrogen gas, becoming the first state in the U.S. to use the gas in an execution, despite concerns ...

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, ...

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 ...

Alabama death row prisoner Kenneth Smith may only have days to live. Perhaps in anticipation of his execution, it has been reported that he is "sick in his stomach" and has been vomiting most days. He ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama, unless blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, a never before used execution method that the ...

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, ...

Demetrius Frazer is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Alabama has used nitrogen gas on three other inmates in the past year.

Kenneth Smith, 58, became the first American to be executed by nitrogen gas. The Alabama attorney general said Friday that nitrogen gas is now a "proven" method of execution and that he believes more ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Louisiana has temporarily blocked the usage of nitrogen gas in executions, ruling the new method could cause "pain and terror" to condemned inmates. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly ...