It began Jan. 25 with the first nitrogen gas hypoxia execution in the nation. Alabama is still the only state that has used the method. It ended with a string of back-to-back-to-back executions ...

after Alabama conducted the first execution by the then-untried method in January. Grayson, now 49, was convicted of capital murder along with three other teens in the torture, bludgeoning death ...

26, 1999, in Fort Wayne, Ind., after being sentenced to death in the slayings of four people in July 1997. (Matt Sullivan/The Journal-Gazette via AP) The Indiana Supreme Court has denied a request to ...

An Alabama man convicted of the murder of a hitchhiker was put to death by nitrogen gas on Thursday, officials said, the third use of the controversial execution method in the southern US state ...

By the 10th Century, hanging from gallows was the most frequent execution method. William the Conqueror opposed taking life except in war, and ordered no person to be hanged or executed for any ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is planning to carry out the nation’s third execution with nitrogen gas as critics argue the method needs more scrutiny before it is used to put another person to death ...

and prison leaders called off the execution. Creech challenged the state’s right to execute him in the future, and Idaho has proposed a new method of lethal injection for Creech: central line IV, ...

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2011 file photo, the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution is shown as Security Institution Warden Randy Blades look on in Boise, Idaho. Idaho could bring ...