Update: Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday, Jan. 25. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. If Kenneth Eugene Smith is brought to the Alabama death chamber to ...

Nitrogen gas was used in an execution for the first time last week, and this state's attorney general has made a legal effort to add the new method. Ohio's Republican attorney general put his weight ...

Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has ...

A man who maintained his innocence after being convicted of murder was executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama on Thursday.