A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a death penalty opponent who worked with Hunt, expressed sadness over his execution. 'Greg Hunt was my friend. I am devastated that Alabama saw fit to kill him,' Hood said.

It was the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen gas. The execution method involves forcing an inmate to breathe pure nitrogen gas, depriving them of the oxygen needed to stay alive.

When the curtains to the death chamber opened, Hunt was strapped to a gurney, wrapped in a white sheet and had a mask over his ... the Rev. Jeff Hood said that he was "very afraid of being executed.

Strapped to a gurney with a blue-rimmed mask covering his entire face ... The Rev. Jeff Hood, a death penalty opponent who worked with Hunt, expressed sadness over his execution. “Greg Hunt was my ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

News; World news; Death Penalty; Most agonising execution method still used today, according to experts WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT As the death penalty continues to be a point of heated debate ...

The Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood, a priest actually in the chamber with Smith, described saliva and mucus filling Smith’s mask to the point of probable suffocation, his eyes bulging grotesquely ...

Before the execution, prison officials placed oxygen monitors in and around the death chamber and required Hood to sign a liability waiver in case he was harmed by a nitrogen leak, which he said ...

Hood says witnessing executions makes him feel 'like a murderer' In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that spiritual advisers must be allowed into execution chambers if death row inmates want them.

Nearly 60 people are on death row in Louisiana, and while it's been more than a decade since the state last carried out an execution, those sentenced to death could face a new execution method.