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The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in Florida.  The Rev. Jeff Hood is “determined to let people know you’re ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Three decades since mistakenly gunning down two people in a revenge killing, 10 days since the governor ...
Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.
Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the method and why its controversial.
Alabama's first time using nitrogen gas as an execution method was in January 2024, when the state put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death. News reports say he thrashed violently and shook for about two ...
DEATH row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed for minutes in his final moments as he was executed with deadly nitrogen gas. Kenneth, 58, was becoming part of a morbid history as the first man in th… ...
As Oklahoma Death Row inmate Kevin Underwood prepares to plead for clemency Monday morning, ... Michael Dewayne Smith. On April 4, ... Kenneth Meers.
In January, inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith was the first person in the nation to be executed using nitrogen gas and was seen having similar seizure-like spasms for several minutes and rocking the gurney ...
BOISE, Idaho — After a failed execution in February, Idaho's longest-serving death row inmate said a second attempt to execute him would be "cruel and unusual punishment" - violating his Eight ...
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Sean Finnegan, from Anderson County, was sentenced this week to death for the 2019 torture, rape and killing of Jennifer Paxton, but he could die of natural causes before ever ...
Video above: Alabama carries out nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Smith A corrections officer who helped carry out the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution said in a court document that the ...