nitrogen hypoxia

Alabama is attracting international attention following the nitrogen gas execution of Carey Grayson. The UK’s Daily Mail is describing the method as controversial while Britain’s Daily Star called the process agonizing torture. Grayson was one of four teens convicted of killing a hitch hiker by throwing her off a cliff. It was the third execution in the U.S. using nitrogen gas, all carried out in Alabama this year.

An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed by nitrogen gas. Carey Dale Grayson is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Thursday at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama.

The State of Alabama is preparing to conduct its third execution with nitrogen gas tonight. Carey Grayson is within hours of a death sentence for the 1994 killing of a Jefferson County woman. The use of nitrogen hypoxia is still considered controversial and experimental. We got an international view of the situation, and an explanation on how we got here.

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 judge on Wednesday refused to stop the nation’s third scheduled execution by nitrogen gas that is planned in Alabama for later this month. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. denied a request to block Alabama from executing Carey Dale Grayson on Nov. 21 using the same nitrogen gas protocol.

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.

A man convicted of killing three people in workplace shootings has been executed with nitrogen gas in Alabama. It was the second time the state has carried out an execution with nitrogen gas. Alan Miller was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. local time Thursday.

Alabama is preparing to carry out the nation’s second nitrogen gas execution. Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled to be executed Thursday with nitrogen gas at a south Alabama prison.