Alabama is readying an untried method of execution to carry out its death sentences – nitrogen hypoxia. The state approved the method in 2018, but it has not yet been used or tested.

Alabama carried out its planned execution of the condemned inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night using nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and widely-contested death penalty method used for ...

Kenneth “Kenny” Smith, 58, is set to die by nitrogen hypoxia today. Smith will breathe in the toxic gas through a mask, which will deprive his body of oxygen until he dies.

Roberts killed Jones on April 22, 1992. He stole money from her wallet while she was asleep and then shot her three times in ...

Alabama’s development of a never-used nitrogen hypoxia method of execution is not final but could possibly be used next week, a lawyer for the state said in court Monday.

Alabama prepares to carry out first execution by nitrogen asphyxiation 04:40. A death row inmate in Alabama, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial ...

An Alabama man who has spent nearly three decades on death row will soon be executed for the 1997 murder of a gas station ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama cannot carry out an execution next week by nitrogen hypoxia, the state prison commissioner disclosed Thursday in response to a federal judge’s directive to clarify ...

The state of Alabama has executed Gregory Hunt by nitrogen hypoxia for the 1988 murder of Karen Lane. A doctor pronounced Hunt to dead at 6:26 p.m. June 10. His death marked Alabama's third execution ...

However, when Alabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia in 2018, state law gave inmates a brief window to select it as their preferred execution method. A number of inmates selected nitrogen.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has vowed to push ahead with the execution of Kenneth Smith using an untested method, nitrogen hypoxia (Getty / The Independent) ...

Former Alabama State Sen. Tripp Pittman, who introduced the bill to allow the use of nitrogen hypoxia in 2018, called it a "more humane method" of execution, a characterization that Zivot challenged.