A 54-year-old man convicted of a 1993 revenge killing is to be put to death in Florida on Tuesday in the 26th execution in the United States this year, the most in a decade. Twenty executions have ...

The state of Alabama has executed Gregory Hunt by nitrogen hypoxia for the 1988 murder of Karen Lane. A doctor pronounced Hunt to dead at 6:26 p.m. June 10.

On Tuesday, he is expected to be executed via nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama became the first state to ever use the method in the execution of Kenneth Smith, which took about 15 minutes to complete.

No state has used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. In 2018, Alabama became the third state — along with Oklahoma and Mississippi — to authorize the use of nitrogen gas to ...

The Alabama attorney general’s office says using nitrogen gas is "painless" and "human," but some doctors and critics are raising doubts.

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The Alabama attorney general’s office says using nitrogen gas is "painless" and "human," but some doctors and critics are raising doubts.