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State plans to kill 25 prisoners in less than three years but officials had sought to increase gap between executions from 60 to 90 days

Alabama carried out the first ever execution using nitrogen gas in the United States. More states are likely to follow suit. But critics say that despite claims to the contrary, this method is cruel and inhumane.

Supreme Court denies Alabama hitman's bid to halt nitrogen hypoxia execution

Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to be executed next Thursday using the ‘untested’ method

The inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, already survived a botched execution attempt by lethal injection in 2022.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission expressed outrage Wednesday that convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith would be put to death using the untested method of nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama.

Too many years have elapsed between the time Thomas Eugene Creech was sentenced to death and the imposition of his execution.

2022’s bungled lethal injections follow a long history. At last, though, they’re affecting the death penalty’s public support.

Oregon’s Democratic governor emptied death row and Nevada’s tried, even as some red states try to ramp up their killing. But partisan divides on capital punishment remain complex.

More than a third of the country’s execution attempts this year were “botched” or deemed visibly problematic, according to a year-end report released Friday by the Death Penalty Information Center.