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Alabama carries out nation's 3rd nitrogen gas execution

1:00am November 22, 2024

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's third execution using nitrogen gas.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office asked the Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, shown here in 1999.

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Alabama seeks to carry out 2nd execution using controversial nitrogen gas method

2:04am February 22, 2024

by The Associated Press

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The state said the execution would use nitrogen.

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Alabama requests a date to execute an inmate via nitrogen hypoxia for the first time

8:53pm August 28, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Smith was supposed to be executed in November 2022 by lethal injection, but corrections officers failed to insert an IV properly. The U.S. Supreme Court has authorized nitrogen hypoxia in his case.

This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows James Barber. A federal appeals court on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, refused to stop Barber's upcoming execution in Alabama, rejecting his argument that the state has a history of botched lethal injections.

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Alabama executes man for a 2001 beating death of a woman, resuming lethal injections

3:56am July 21, 2023

by The Associated Press

It was the first execution carried out in Alabama this year after the state halted executions last fall. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced a pause on executions in November to review procedures.

Activists holds posters against the impending execution of Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, during a candlelight vigil gathering outside the Singaporean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Apri

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Singapore executes disabled Malaysian convicted in drug case

3:47am April 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Supporters and lawyers of the man said he had an IQ of 69 and was intellectually disabled, and that the execution of a mentally ill person was prohibited under international human rights law.

The sun sets behind Holman Prison in Atmore, Ala., on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Matthew Reeves, convicted of killing a man during a robbery in 1996.

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Supreme Court clears the way for the execution of an Alabama inmate

10:08pm January 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

A poor reader, Matthew Reeves is intellectually disabled and wasn't capable of making a decision on the method of execution without assistance, his lawyers arg93ued.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended this month that Julius Jones' death sentence be commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Okla. governor grants clemency to Julius Jones hours before he was set to be executed

4:12pm November 18, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones after a public outcry. Jones, who maintains he was wrongly convicted of a 1999 murder, now faces life in prison without parole.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a Buddhist inmate in Texas.

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Supreme Court Halts Execution Of 'Texas 7' Inmate Denied Buddhist Spiritual Adviser

10:08am March 29, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Patrick Murphy, who escaped from prison and participated in a robbery that led to a murder, was scheduled to be executed Thursday. The court said he had the right to a spiritual adviser of his choice.

Convicted murderer Carey Dean Moore did not put up a legal challenge to the execution protocol.

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Nebraska Carries Out 1st Execution Using Fentanyl In U.S.

2:23pm August 14, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

A federal three-judge panel denied a drug company's request to halt the execution of Carey Dean Moore over concerns about whether the state obtained the drugs improperly.

Inmate Ronald Phillips was executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, on Wednesday morning. Above, the prison's death chamber in 2005.

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After Three-Year Hiatus, Ohio Carries Out An Execution

6:15pm July 26, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The lethal injection of Ronald Phillips may mark the end of Ohio's battle to find a legally permissible means of execution – and the state may soon execute more of the 138 people on its death row.