Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday signed into law new methods of execution that can be used in Louisiana for the state’s nearly 60 death row prisoners starting July 1. Electrocution is back in rotation ...

A death row inmate in Alabama, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and untested method that has prompted legal pushback and public scrutiny from ...

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 ...

On 25 January, Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials will strap Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney in Holman Correctional Facility and pump his lungs full of pure nitrogen. Having survived ...

Alabama is set to use a new method of execution, nitrogen gas, for the first time. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived a previous attempt by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled for execution by ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — As Ohio has continuously delayed carrying out death sentences for its death row prisoners, lawmakers announced on Tuesday that they are taking action to introduce a new ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, ...

Before the Nazis sent him to a forced labor camp, young Leo Lewis’ grandmother paid him one last visit. “I will not be here when you come back,” she told the boy, who had voluntarily handed himself ...

After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a message to other states: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you." So ...

Update: Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday, Jan. 25. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. If Kenneth Eugene Smith is brought to the Alabama death chamber to ...