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 Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was sentenced to death following a fatal workplace shooting that killed three people in the US - he is set to become the second prisoner to face death by nitrogen gas


Alabama has asked the Supreme Court to approve the states second nitrogen-gas execution less than a month after Kenneth Smith was violently executed.

Alabama has asked the state's Supreme Court to approve a date for a second execution using nitrogen hypoxia, which was used for the first time in January.

Louisiana House committee OKs nitrogen gas executions, electrocutions and a measure to limit public access to records related to executions

With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs, some are turning to alternative and highly controversial execution methods. Michelle Del Rey reports

With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs, some are turning to alternative and highly controversial execution methods. Michelle Del Rey reports

With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs, some are turning to alternative and highly controversial execution methods. Michelle Del Rey reports

Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death in January when state prison officials replaced his breathing air with nitrogen gas,

WARNING: ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. As lawmakers in South Carolina contemplate using the electric chair for executions, one doctor has shared chilling details of what happens to the body

MONTGOMERY — Alabama in late January became the first state to use nitrogen gas in an execution, finding a new way to carry out a death sentence after drug companies