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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized an execution date for a man convicted in the 2004 slaying of a couple during a robbery. Justices on Wednesday granted the Alabama attorney general’s request to authorize an execution date for 50-year-old Jamie Mill. Gov. Kay Ivey will set the exact date.
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Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas. The move comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method.
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An Alabama inmate set to be the first person put to death by nitrogen gas will ask a federal appeals Friday to block the upcoming execution. Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed by the never-used method Thursday at a south Alabama prison. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Friday afternoon in Smith’s bid to stop the execution from going forward.
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On Monday, January 22, a delegation of Alabama faith leaders and community members will gather at the state capitol building to urge Governor Kay Ivey to pause the first-ever nitrogen hypoxia execution. Kenneth Smith is set to be executed by this new and experimental method on January 25.
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A federal judge says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas despite claims the method is cruel and untested. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker refused on Wednesday to block the scheduled Jan. 25 execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia.
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A lawsuit filed by lawyers for a spiritual adviser to an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas next month say that restrictions on how close the adviser can get to the inmate in the death chamber are “hostile to religion.”
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An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the "experimental" execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state's request to carry out his death sentence using the new method.
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ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted as an accomplice in the 2004 shooting deaths of three police officers in which another man pulled the trigger has been…
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A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn yesterday. Eight of the inmate plaintiffs asked to be put to death…
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An Alabama committee has passed a bill allowing death row inmates to be executed with nitrogen gas. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the measure 6-3…