If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

Alabama executes second death row ... Photo courtesy of Alabama ... States to have their sentence carried out by this method after Alabama executed Kenneth Smith with nitrogen gas on Jan. 25.

Alabama executed a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman Tuesday evening.Gregory Hunt was scheduled to ...

Smith was killed by nitrogen hypoxia on January 25 at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. Smith was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1989 for a murder-for-hire plot ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his execution.

You can't believe you were part of it and did it,” Hunt said. Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama's death row. He said prison ...