Nitrogen Gas Execution

Alabama’s attorney general says another nitrogen gas execution will go forward in September. The state on Monday reached a settlement agreement to end litigation filed by death row inmate Alan Miller who is slated to be the second person put to death with nitrogen gas.

Court filings are providing new details of what happened in the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas. Kenneth Smith was executed in Alabama on Jan. 25. A corrections officer said in a sworn statement that Smith had normal blood oxygen levels for longer than he expected.

Lawyers for an Alabama inmate asked a judge to block the nation's second scheduled execution using nitrogen gas, arguing the first was a "horrific scene" that violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Alabama has asked the state Supreme Court to authorize another execution using nitrogen gas. The request comes months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

An Alabama inmate seeking to block the state's plans to make him the second person to be put to death with nitrogen gas has filed a lawsuit arguing the state “botched” the first execution using the new method.

Alabama has set a May 30 execution date for a man convicted in the 2004 slaying of a couple during a robbery. Governor Kay Ivey set the date for the execution by lethal injection of Jamie Mills. The Alabama Supreme Court last week authorized the governor to set an execution date.

Louisiana's Republican-dominated Legislature has given final passage to a bill that would add electrocution the use of nitrogen gas, like Alabama, as a method of carrying out the death penalty.

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.

Governor Kay Ivey is set to give her annual State of the State address from Montgomery. Her talk comes less than three weeks after Alabama conducted the nation’s first ever execution by nitrogen gas. An act opposed by the European Union and the United Nations Human Rights Council.