Court filings provide additional details of the US' first nitrogen gas execution
Court filings are providing new details of what happened in the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas
August 01, 2024Court filings are providing new details of what happened in the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas
August 01, 2024A man facing execution in Utah has addressed state officials, asking them to spare him the death penalty and allow him to remain imprisoned for life
July 22, 2024Utah officials are scrapping plans to use an untested drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case
July 20, 2024A man convicted of killing his former lover and her husband in what prosecutors called a fit of rage has been executed in Missouri
June 11, 2024A Missouri inmate who is weeks away from execution is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman described as a “medical emergency."
May 17, 2024In America’s execution chambers, a very troubling new method is emerging. It is called “nitrogen hypoxia” and involves suffocating the prisoner to death by depriving them of oxygen. Several states like Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi now allow using nitrogen gas as an execution method as an alternative to lethal injection. But this practice is incredibly inhumane and brutal. With nitrogen hypoxia, the inmate wears a mask that feeds them nitrogen gas instead of regular air with oxygen. As they breathe in the nitrogen, their body is slowly starved of the oxygen it needs to survive. It is essentially a controlled
May 12, 2024For nearly 50 years, Idaho’s prison staffers have been serving Thomas Eugene Creech three meals a day, checking on him during rounds and taking him to medical appointments
February 25, 2024A federal judge says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas later this month
January 10, 2024A man who killed two women he met a day apart at north Florida bars in 1996 has been executed
October 03, 2023