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Attorneys for the first inmate slated to be put to death with nitrogen gas have asked a federal appeals court to block the execution scheduled later this month in Alabama. Kenneth Eugene Smith's attorneys on Monday asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block his January 25th execution. The appellate court will hear arguments in the case on Friday.
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The Alabama Supreme Court rejected the appeal of a death row inmate who is scheduled to be the first person put to death with nitrogen gas and had argued that he shouldn't face execution after a previous attempt at a lethal injection failed.
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A federal judge is considering diverging arguments about the humaneness and risks of execution by nitrogen gas as he weighs whether to let Alabama attempt the nation's first use of the method.
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A former correctional officer in Alabama was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for using excessive force on an inmate and lying on a report in an attempt to cover it up.
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A lawsuit filed by lawyers for a spiritual adviser to an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas next month say that restrictions on how close the adviser can get to the inmate in the death chamber are “hostile to religion.”
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Current and former inmates of the Alabama prison system have filed a lawsuit challenging the prison labor program. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court says prisoners are forced to work for little and sometimes even no pay in jobs that benefit government entities or private companies. They called it a kind of ''modern day slavery."
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An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection for the shooting death of his friend's father urged young people to take a pause before making life-altering mistakes.
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Alabama has set a January execution date for what would be the nation's first attempt to put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas.
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A divided Alabama Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not previously been used carry out a death sentence.
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Alabama's governor has scheduled a November execution date for an inmate convicted of shooting and killing a man during a 1993 robbery.