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Alabama executes Gregory Hunt using nitrogen hypoxia for 1988 murder of Karen Lane
Gregory Hunt died Tuesday night by nitrogen hypoxia at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Hunt became the third inmate executed in Alabama this year, and only the sixth person in the US to be put to death using the controversial method.
Nitrogen execution, delta preserve, All-Star ballots: Down in Alabama
The Nature Conservancy in Alabama and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation also announced on Tuesday that the 8,000-acre nature preserve in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta known as the “land between the rivers” will be officially named for Wilson, reports AL.com’s Margaret Kates.
Alabama prepares for fifth nitrogen suffocation execution.
A man convicted of beating a woman to death nearly 37 years ago is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Alabama in what will be the nation's sixth execution with nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday night.
Alabama executes Gregory Hunt by nitrogen gas for 1988 murder of Karen Lane
Hunt's execution marks Alabama's third this year, on pace to match the six it carried out last year, and the fifth time it used the controversial method.
Alabama executes Gregory Hunt for 1988 murder of Karen Lane
Karen Lane was beaten to death by Gregory Hunt in 1988. On June 10, he became the fifth inmate executed by nitrogen gas.
Alabama executes a man by nitrogen gas for the beating death of a woman in 1988
An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. at a south Alabama prison,
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Alabama's second nitrogen gas execution follows what critics call an "insistence on secrecy" by corrections officials
There were two options: lethal injection, the default method, which Alabama had been accused of botching in the prison's execution chamber; and nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental alternative that ...
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Alabama Carries Out Second Execution Using Nitrogen Gas
The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar response. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Alabama conducted the second execution in the United States using nitrogen gas on ...
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Alabama’s 2nd nitrogen gas execution raises questions about method’s future use
Alabama followed through on its plans ... He noted similarities in witness accounts between the second nitrogen gas execution and the first — of Kenny Smith in January — which he witnessed ...
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Alabama's third nitrogen execution set for November
Alabama executed Kenneth Smith in January in the nation's first nitrogen gas execution. A second execution via nitrogen gas is set for Sept. 26 for Alan Eugene Miller. Miller recently ...
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How nitrogen gas executions work as death row mate chooses method before chilling final act
Before the procedure took place, he was asked whether he had any final words, to which he replied 'no' before giving a ...
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Alabama to carry out the second nitrogen gas execution in the US
ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama is preparing to carry out the nation’s second nitrogen gas execution Thursday as disagreements continue over the humaneness of the new method of putting prisoners to ...
4 executions scheduled in different states this week, amid nationwide uptick
While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall ...