Secrecy laws
Alabama
Who performs a lethal injection in the U.S.? In some states, they're volunteers
•
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
Louisiana will join Alabama in adding nitrogen suffocation as option for killing prisoners
•
Louisiana is on the cusp of resuming death penalty executions for the first time in more than a decade after the Legislature gave final pass...
Alabama
Things to know about Idaho's failed execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech
•
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
Opponents of Alabama's nitrogen executions want nitrogen companies to withhold supply
•
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...
Asia
Inside China's brutal death policy: 'World’s worst executioner'
•
The communist state has a notorious record of imposing the death penalty 'quickly' and 'in large numbers' with a range of ho...
Alabama
Alabama | I’m an anesthesiologist. Kenneth Smith’s execution by nitrogen gas was far from ‘textbook’
•
On Thursday evening, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas. Now, there are dueling narratives about what happen...