The State of Alabama is asking permission to execute a man by lethal injection after court rulings blocked the use of nitrogen gas and cast doubt on the future of the state’s gas method.
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Alabama’s use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute a death row inmate who was convicted of killing two people in Dallas County.
The State of Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside a judge’s findings that using nitrogen gas for executions violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
A federal appeals court says Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to execute criminals needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Alabama has set an execution date for the man convicted of killing two people during a robbery at a pawn shop in Dallas County in 1998.
Convicted killer Anthony Boyd has been executed by the State of Alabama for a 1993 capital murder case.
The Alabama Department of Corrections has executed Geoffrey Todd West.
Alabama has scheduled an October execution for a man who was convicted in a 1993 murder.
The State of Alabama has scheduled the execution date for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery.
Gregory Hunt was convicted of killing Karen Lane in Cordova, a woman he had been dating for about a month, according to court records.
