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A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week. The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to let Carey Dale Grayson's execution proceed Thursday night. Alabama began using nitrogen gas to execute people on death row earlier this year.

A man who admitted to killing five people in 2016 has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama. Derrick Dearman was pronounced dead Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama.

Alabama is preparing to put to death a man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016. Derrick Dearman is to be executed by lethal injection at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He dropped his appeals this year to allow his execution to go forward.

Justice activist groups are leading a panel discussion about the impact of the death penalty in Alabama. This comes as a federal judge is deciding whether to allow the State to use nitrogen hypoxia again next month to put an inmate to death, following testimony on Tuesday about over happened during the nation’s first two nitrogen gas executions.

A federal judge is hearing testimony about the nation’s first two nitrogen gas executions, weighing whether to let Alabama carry out a third such execution next month. Attorneys for Carey Dale Grayson are asking a federal judge to block his scheduled Nov. 21 execution with nitrogen gas. But the state is asking that the execution go forward.

It's been one week since Alabama used nitrogen gas to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings in 1999. It was the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country. Now, a Montgonery nonprofit will hold a panel discussion about the impact of the death penalty in Alabama.

Alabama is set to carry out the nation’s second execution ever using nitrogen gas after becoming the first state to use the new procedure in January. Alan Miller is set to die by the process on Thursday, Sept. 26, in which a mask is placed over the inmate’s head that forces the inmate to inhale pure nitrogen.

Death row inmates in five separate states are set to be put to death in the span of one week. If carried out as planned, the executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five executions were held in seven days.

The state of Alabama is asking a judge to deny defense lawyers’ request to film the next execution by nitrogen gas in an attempt to help courts evaluate whether the new method is humane. The request to record the scheduled Sept. 26 execution of Alan Miller was filed by attorneys for another man facing the death penalty, Carey Dale Grayson.

Lawyers for an Alabama inmate, scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas this fall, argued in a court filing that the state has ignored problems with the method as it seeks to carry out more nitrogen executions.