The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs It was ...

Alabama carried out its planned execution of the condemned inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night using nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and widely-contested death penalty method used for the ...

Alabama will be the first state to use nitrogen in an execution. If it goes smoothly, other states are likely to follow. By Jan Hoffman The planned execution of a death row inmate by the state of ...

Toward the end of June 2018, condemned inmates at Holman Correctional Facility in southern Alabama received slips of paper that gave them the choice to decide how they would prefer to die. There were ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a collection of work by Elizabeth Bruenig that was the finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. At Holman Correctional Facility, in Atmore, ...

After spending decades on Arizona's death row, Clarence Dixon was executed on Wednesday for the 1978 murder of Deana Bowdoin. At 66 years old, Dixon is just the most recent example of the growing ...

Alabama was set to carry out the first-ever execution by nitrogen hypoxia on death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday. The planned execution raises heated questions about the ethics of using ...

The Trump administration executed Lisa Montgomery early Wednesday morning, marking the first federal execution of a woman in 68 years. Montgomery, the 11th civilian to be executed by the federal ...

With a new Apple security flaw in the news, it's a good time to revisit the question of what speculative execution is and how it works. This topic received a great deal of discussion a few years ago ...

Florida executed Loran Cole on Thursday in the 1994 murder of an 18-year-old college student whose big sister was raped during what started as a fun camping weekend and became a family's worst ...

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Government reports rarely make for stimulating reading. That's because most government reports aren't about throwing people off a cliff or clubbing them to death. In 1887, the state of New York ...