If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...

Gregory Hunt became the third inmate executed in Alabama this year, and only the sixth person in the US to be put to death using the controversial method.

The Nature Conservancy in Alabama and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation also announced on Tuesday that the 8,000-acre nature preserve in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta known as the “land between ...

Two men were executed in two different states on Tuesday evening, bringing a final, grim chapter to a close for crimes ...

Hunt's execution marks Alabama's third this year, on pace to match the six it carried out last year, and the fifth time it ...

Karen Lane was beaten to death by Gregory Hunt in 1988. On June 10, he became the fifth inmate executed by nitrogen gas.

Alabama followed through on its plans ... He noted similarities in witness accounts between the second nitrogen gas execution and the first — of Kenny Smith in January — which he witnessed ...

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 ...

There were two options: lethal injection, the default method, which Alabama had been accused of botching in the prison's execution chamber; and nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental alternative that ...

Alan Eugene Miller became the second man in the nation executed by nitrogen gas Thursday when the state of Alabama put him to death for a 1999 triple homicide, after failing to do so by lethal ...

Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man ... state officials said. The execution was the second to use the new method Alabama first employed in January, when Kenneth Smith was put ...

Alan Eugene Miller was executed Thursday evening in Alabama, state officials said, making him the second ... this year by nitrogen hypoxia in what is believed to be the first execution by that ...