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 ...

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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 ...

UL softball and head coach Alyson Habetz head to Tuscaloosa for four games against Power 4 opponents, including two vs.

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— Alabama softball was feeling confident entering Saturday's action. Having comfortably won games 12-3 and 3-0 against Iowa and Louisiana, respectively, the day before, the Crimson ...

The protocol closely mirrors that of Alabama, the only state to have carried out nitrogen gas executions in the modern era. Several key clauses in Louisiana's protocol match Alabama's game plan ...

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 ...