After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a message to other states: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you." So ...

The state of Alabama has proved that it is incapable of consistently carrying out executions that conform to the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. After a series of botched ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...