Alabama Lethal Injection

Alabama has scheduled an October execution by nitrogen gas for an inmate who has an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new method as unconstitutionally cruel. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Monday set an Oct. 23 execution date for Anthony Boyd, 53. Boyd is one of four men convicted in the 1993 killing of Gregory Huguley in Talladega. Prosecutors said Huguley was burned to death after he failed to pay for $200 worth of cocaine.

The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not go forward next week as the state waits for the completion of a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. A judge last month stayed the August, 21st execution of David Lee Roberts until a mental evaluation could be conducted to see if Roberts is competent to be executed.

A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, saying Blacks were rejected from the jury during his trial. The Monday ruling from a three judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals means Michael Sockwell, 62, is eligible for a retrial.

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.

The Supreme Court will consider making it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled, according an order released early on Friday after an apparent technological glitch.

Alabama plans to carry out another execution by nitrogen gas and has set a June execution date for a man convicted of the 1988 killing of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death June 10 for the 1988 beating death of Karen Lane.

A man on Alabama's death row wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an "eye for an eye." James Osgood, 55, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday at his south Alabama prison.

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas. Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown.

Alabama is attracting international attention following the nitrogen gas execution of Carey Grayson. The UK’s Daily Mail is describing the method as controversial while Britain’s Daily Star called the process agonizing torture. Grayson was one of four teens convicted of killing a hitch hiker by throwing her off a cliff. It was the third execution in the U.S. using nitrogen gas, all carried out in Alabama this year.

The State of Alabama is preparing to conduct its third execution with nitrogen gas tonight. Carey Grayson is within hours of a death sentence for the 1994 killing of a Jefferson County woman. The use of nitrogen hypoxia is still considered controversial and experimental. We got an international view of the situation, and an explanation on how we got here.