Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...

A monster storm system carrying a high risk tornado threat is barreling through the Southeast after unleashing deadly ...

Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...

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Alabama is the only U.S. state to have executed using nitrogen gas in the modern era, having done so four times since the start of 2024. Louisiana's protocol for nitrogen gas, which the ...

The severe storm threat begins Saturday. Central and northern MS face heightened risk, and forecasters are warning of danger across the state.

all in Alabama last year and this year. All the inmates in that state chose nitrogen gas over lethal injection and the electric chair, while Louisiana made the decision to execute Hoffman using ...

Attorneys for the state argued that nitrogen hypoxia has proven to be successful in Alabama, saying the method is seemingly painless and an approved method under Louisiana law. Republican ...