Carey Dale Grayson is set to die Nov. 21. He was convicted of the brutal Feb. 22, 1994, slaying and mutilation of Vicki Lynn ...

Federal district Judge R. Austin Huffaker has established himself as the judge most responsible for turning America into a ...

U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. denied an attempt to prevent Alabama from using nitrogen gas to execute Grayson.

As Alabama sets the course for the controversial execution method’s future, activists and legal scholars say eyewitness ...

A judge on Wednesday refused to stop the nation’s third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is planned in Alabama for ...

A federal judge Wednesday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to block his scheduled execution later this month by ...

If, as the state had suggested, all that Miller needed to do for a quick and painless execution was to not fight it — to willingly breathe in the lethal gas — then Alabama’s second nitrogen ...

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.

The shaking exhibited by Miller was similar to what was seen at the first nitrogen gas execution but did not seem as long or as violent. Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Q. Hamm said the ...

Alabama has executed a man with nitrogen gas, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. Skip to ...

choosing nitrogen gas hypoxia instead, court documents reveal. Nitrogen hypoxia: Why Alabama's execution of Kenneth Smith stirs ethical controversy. There was a clock in the death chamber at ...

Alabama plans to conduct the nation’s second execution by means of nitrogen gas hypoxia Thursday when it will put Alan Eugene Miller to death for a 1999 mass murder in Jefferson County. The execution ...