U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. denied an attempt to prevent Alabama from using nitrogen gas to execute Grayson.

A judge on Wednesday refused to stop the nation’s third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is planned in Alabama for ...

A federal judge Wednesday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution later this month by ...

On September 23 the first user of the Sarco suicide pod climbed into the device and pushed a button, causing the chamber to ...

A federal judge will decide whether to allow Alabama to perform the nation's third execution by nitrogen hypoxia after hearing testimony pertaining to the execution method on Tuesday. Lawyers for ...

As Alabama sets the course for the controversial execution method’s future, activists and legal scholars say eyewitness ...

There were two options: lethal injection, the default method, which Alabama had been accused of botching in the prison's execution chamber; and nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental alternative that ...

Alabama has executed Alan Eugene Miller, marking the second time the state has put a death row inmate to death using nitrogen gas. Miller died at 6.38 pm on Thursday and was earlier visited by ...

(CNN) — Alan Eugene Miller was executed Thursday evening in Alabama, state officials said, making him the second inmate known to die by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial method critics say is ...

Nitrogen hypoxia, during which a prisoner is forced to inhale pure nitrogen gas, came under intense scrutiny in January when the state executed Kenneth Eugene Smith. Smith was made to inhale ...

(CNN) — An inmate in Alabama is coming to face to face with death for a second time in two years as he’s set to become the second person known to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a ...