Botched execution
Alabama
Who performs a lethal injection in the U.S.? In some states, they're volunteers
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Eight times, a medical team in an Idaho prison tried to establish an intravenous line to deliver a lethal injection to condemned inmate Thom...
Alabama
Christian minister says nitrogen execution he witnessed is slow, ‘spiritually violent’ torture
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As the Rev. Jeff Hood was leaving for work one day back in January, his children begged him for one thing: to come back alive.“The kids woul...
Alabama
Things to know about Idaho's failed execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech
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KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members po...
Alabama
A new Louisiana capital-punishment bill would fundamentally alter physician licensing
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After the recent nitrogen gas execution in Alabama of Kenneth Smith, state Attorney General Steve Marshall said that nitrogen gas “was inten...
Alabama
Alabama seeks to perform second execution using nitrogen hypoxia
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Alabama has asked the state's Supreme Court to approve a date for death row inmate Alan Eugene Miller's execution, which would be ca...
Bible Belt
Why Oklahoma’s tough-on-crime lawmakers no longer trust death penalty
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Inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Phillip Hancock has eaten his final meal. Fried chicken from KFC, no sides. It’s the last day of Nov...
Alabama
Opponents of Alabama's nitrogen executions want nitrogen companies to withhold supply
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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 dr...
Alabama
First nitrogen execution was a ‘botched’ human experiment, Alabama lawsuit alleges
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate filed a lawsuit Thursday that challenges the constitutionality of nitrogen gas execution...
Alabama
USA | Voters divided over nitrogen gas executions
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Convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith's agonizing death on gurney left people wary of the new punishment, our first-of-its-kind poll rev...
Alabama
100 years of US experimentation with lethal gas executions
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“We didn’t see somebody go unconscious in 30 seconds. What we saw was minutes of someone struggling for their life." The first use of g...
Abolition
The illusion of kinder, gentler executions
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This past week Alabama continued our country’s experiment with different ways to kill people. It executed Kenneth Smith.A brief history. In ...
Abortion
"Ohio Attorney General’s push to revive the death penalty is untimely, unseemly, and unnecessary"
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost just couldn’t resist jumping onboard a new way to kill people – or the opportunity to be in front of televis...
Alabama
Alabama | I’m an anesthesiologist. Kenneth Smith’s execution by nitrogen gas was far from ‘textbook’
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On Thursday evening, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas. Now, there are dueling narratives about what happen...