(Members of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty or PHADP at Holman prison. Photo from Facebook.) By Beth Shelburne / Moth to Flame Ahead of the first ever experimental execution by suffocation using nitrogen gas scheduled in Alabama next week, it’s worth thinking about the many ways the state uses its iron-fisted power to control narratives about death row, and what happens during state-sanctioned killings. I seek out counternarratives on these subjects because the state lost credibility