Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, following Alabama conducting the first known execution of a prisoner using nitrogen gas. "Finally - a Red State in favor a mask." Bill ...

Origins of the nitrogen gas execution plan. Smith's execution, if it is conducted as scheduled on Jan. 25, represents the most notable step forward in the strange journey of a new method devised ...

Alabama inmate David Phillip Wilson filed a lawsuit similar to Hoffman's last month claiming the state’s plan to execute him using nitrogen gas violates the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel ...

Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night, marking the nation’s first known execution using nitrogen gas. Smith, who was sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder for ...

The judge's order clears the way for what would be the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas — a method the inmate's lawyers criticize as cruel and experimental.

Alabama intends to carry out the first known execution by nitrogen gas this week, when it’s scheduled to put to death Kenneth Smith some 14 months after failing to carry out his capital ...

Alan E. Miller, convicted in three 1999 murders, appeared to shake and gasp after the gas began flowing, media witnesses said. The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar ...

What is nitrogen hypoxia? Hypoxia is a medical term for a state of insufficient oxygen in the body. Nitrogen, a colorless, odorless gas, makes up about 78 percent of the air inhaled by humans.