The state lawyers wrote that Alabama's "nitrogen hypoxia protocol has been successfully used twice, and both times it resulted in a death within a matter of minutes." Kenny Smith was the first ...
No state other than Alabama has used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. In 2018, Alabama became the third state — along with Oklahoma and Mississippi — to authorize the use of ...
Brian Lyman’s “Alabama’s death penalty depends on darkness” (Dec. 22) provides a chilling example of how woke hyperbole ...
In Alabama, inmates can choose to die by either nitrogen hypoxia, lethal injection or electrocution, with Grayson selecting the former. The controversial method was only used for the first time ...