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Ohio House holds first hearing for new nitrogen gas death penalty method
Ohio Capital Journal via Yahoo News· 1 week agoHouse lawmakers have begun hearings on a controversial new execution method known as nitrogen...
States can't figure out how to execute inmates. Alabama is trying something new.
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe state of Alabama tried to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith before and failed, so now they're trying...
Some states resuming capital punishment after 'the year of the botched execution'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAlabama inmate James Barber was put to death early Friday morning, in the first execution in the...
EXPLAINER: Why are states having lethal injection problems?
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA scheduled execution in Alabama that was called off Thursday after prison officials couldn't find a...
Pausing executions is a good start. Now Gov. Katie Hobbs must ban them
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLast month, following a series of botched killings, Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes...
Outcry after Supreme Court allows Alabama to conduct nitrogen execution: "Its 'guinea pig' to test"
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDeath Chamber Getty Images/Bernd Obermann The European Union, the United Nations and a number of...
Oklahoma governor says he's not interested in changing from lethal injection to nitrogen executions
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he is confident in the state’s current lethal injection...
Ohio lawmakers want to resume executions using nitrogen gas
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJan. 30—Following Alabama's first-of-its-kind execution of a convicted murderer last week, some Ohio legislators are looking toward nitrogen gas as a means to restart the state's capital punishment ...
DeSantis steps up pace of executions in Florida, chasing Trump
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTALLAHASSEE – After overseeing only two executions during his first four years in office, Gov. Ron...
2022 saw a record number of ‘botched’ executions, report finds
Yahoo News· 1 year agoMore than a third of the country’s execution attempts this year were “botched” or deemed visibly...
