Tag: NITROGEN HYPOXIA

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to let Alabama carry out the execution of a convicted double murderer by nitrogen hypoxia. A firing squad now appears to be the only remaining option available to the State, though Alabama law does not currently authorize that method.

The State of Alabama has appealed a Tuesday decision by the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, which barred the State from conducting a planned Thursday execution by nitrogen hypoxia.

State Sen. Robert Stewart (D-Selma) joined anti-death penalty advocates who met in Montgomery today to plead with Gov. Kay Ivey to offer amnesty to  Jeffrey James Lee, 49, who is scheduled for execution on Thursday for the 1998 murder of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson in an attempted robbery.

The state has scheduled the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Jeffrey James Lee, 49, for the 1998 murder of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson in an attempted robbery, after the Supreme Court recently issued the order.

Gov. Kay Ivey has scheduled the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Jeffrey James Lee, 49, for the 1998 murder of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson in an attempted robbery. 

The state of Alabama executed Anthony Todd Boyd by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.

The Execution Intervention Project placed a billboard in Montgomery in protest of the planned execution of Anthony Boyd, who brutally murdered a man in 1993.

The Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s execution of Geoffrey Todd West, who murdered a woman in 1997.

Marion County Circuit Judge Talmage Lee Carter recently placed a stay on the scheduled nitrogen hypoxia execution of David Lee Roberts, 59, until the state can determine if Roberts is mentally capable of being executed.

On Thursday, Gov. Kay Ivey officially declared the 30-hour window for the Alabama Department of Corrections to execute Geoffrey Todd West, 49, using the highly criticized method of nitrogen hypoxia.

Alabama executed Gregory Hunt by nitrogen hypoxia at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore on Tuesday night.

The Alabama Department of Corrections announced on Tuesday that it would proceed to carry out the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Gregory Hunt, who was convicted in 1990 of the rape and murder of a Walker County woman two years prior.

Gov. Kay Ivey has issued the timeframe for the nitrogen gas execution of Gregory Hunt, the man convicted of the 1990 rape and murder of a Walker County woman.

Alabama carried out its first execution of the year on Thursday evening, by putting Demetrius Frazier to death via nitrogen hypoxia for the 1991 rape and murder of a Birmingham woman.

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.

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.

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.

Alan Eugene Miller, an Alabama death row inmate awaiting death by nitrogen hypoxia is asking a federal court to stop the execution due to the state’s last execution by gas.

The nitrogen hypoxia execution of Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled to take place between 12 a.m. on September 26 and midnight on September 27.