Alan Miller
Doctors, ethicists skeptical that nitrogen executions will be humane
Alabama’s announcement that it will try to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas suffocation will set off a round of issues about the ethics and practicality of using an untested and unproven method of execution. The Alabama Attorney General’s Office said in an Aug. 25 request to set an execution date for Smith that […]
Federal judges hear arguments in Alabama death row inmate’s appeal
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday heard arguments over whether to allow the scheduled execution of James Edward Barber to go forward on Thursday. Barber, convicted of the murder of Dorothy Epps in 2001, argues that Alabama’s string of botched lethal injection executions means that the method violates his […]