Attorneys for Demetrius Frazier, the man slated to be executed next month for for the 1991 rape and murder of a Birmingham woman, are asking the execution be hated, claiming the state’s protocol for nitrogen hypoxia violates the U.S. Constitution.
Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Tuesday that she has set the time frame for the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Demetrius Frazier, 53, for the 1991 rape and murder of a Birmingham woman.
The State of Alabama successfully carried out the nitrogen gas execution of a combative Carey Dale Grayson on Thursday evening for the 1994 kidnapping, murder and mutilation of a female hitchhiker.
The U.S. Supreme denied a request to review the scheduled Thursday execution of Carey Dale Grayson, paving the way for the Alabama Department of Corrections to carry out the punishment using nitrogen hypoxia.
Despite a series of planned protests and vigils, the state is all set to carry out its third nitrogen gas execution on Thursday in the case of a man convicted for the 1994 kidnapping and murder of a female hitchhiker.
A federal judge has denied attempts to halt the nitrogen gas execution of a man scheduled to be put to death later this month for the 1994 kidnapping and murder of a female hitchhiker.
Jeremy Tremaine Williams, the man convicted of killing and posthumously sexually assaulting five-year-old Kamarie Holland in 2021, is appealing his death sentence imposed on him by a jury earlier this year.
On Thursday evening, The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) successfully carried out the lethal injection execution of Derrick Dearman, who was convicted of murdering five of his girlfriend's relatives with an axe and gun.
The State of Alabama is set to carry out its fifth execution of the year tonight with the scheduled lethal injection of Derrick Dearman, who was convicted of murdering five of his girlfriend's relatives with an axe and gun.
The State of Alabama set to carry out its fifth execution of the year on Thursday with the scheduled lethal injection of Derrick Dearman, who was convicted of murdering five of his girlfriend's relatives.
U.S. District Judge Austin Huffaker, Jr. will deliberate on the state's continued use of nitrogen hypoxia after hearing testimony on Tuesday from attorneys of a condemned man attempting to halt his scheduled execution.
State Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne) pre-filed a bill to make first-degree rape or sodomy of a child five years of age and under a capital offense, punishable by death. The change would apply to defendants 18 and older.
The state of Alabama successfully executed Allan Eugene Miller Thursday night, marking the second-ever use of Nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method in the state and the U.S.
Attorneys for the Alabama man sentenced to die by nitrogen hypoxia for murdering a female hitchhiker are trying to block the state from carrying out the sentence scheduled for November.
Gov. Kay Ivey sent an official order of execution to Alabama Department of Corrections commissioner John Hamm, authorizing the November nitrogen hypoxia execution for Carey Dale Grayson, 49, who kidnapped and murdered a female hitchhiker in 1994, along with several accomplices.
This week, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Carey Dale Grayson, who was convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of a female hitchhiker.
William Clinton Clayton, Jr., got off work on March 6, 1998, and headed to the ATM at his Regions Bank branch in Centre to get some cash to take his wife to dinner that night. However, the trip to the bank would be his last.
Floyd and Vera Hill, an elderly couple, were inside their Marion County home in 2004 when they were brutally attacked, leading to their deaths.
The State of Alabama is preparing to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday. If successful, it will be the first death by nitrogen hypoxia in the United States.
The United Nations Human Rights office released a statement urging Alabama to halt the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith.
A Jefferson County Circuit judge who was convicted of violating ethics rules last year submitted her resignation on Tuesday.
The man convicted in the shooting death of Moody Police Lt. Stephen Williams in 2020 was sentenced to death Wednesday.
A suspect in the gruesome 2019 death of Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney has been denied a motion to throw out the death penalty.
A former soldier was found guilty of capital murder in the May 19, 2019 killing of Auburn Police officer William Buechner. Grady Wilkes, 33, now faces the death penalty.
A woman sentenced to death in the killings of two children lost her petition to the United States Supreme Court.
A prominent Pennsylvania-based gas supplier says it won’t be helping the Alabama Department of Corrections execute death-row inmates by nitrogen hypoxia.
The Alabama Supreme Court brought about a rule change on Thursday that will allow the governor to set a time frame for execution warrants in the state.