Alabama Executions

New billboard draws attention to Anthony Boyd, Alabama’s next nitrogen gas execution

Supporters of Boyd, the chairman of an in-prison anti-death penalty group, put the billboard message up in hopes of garnering more public awareness.

Alabama executes Geoffrey Todd West for the murder of Margaret Parrish Berry

The execution took place despite Berry's son's opposition to it and was marked by less movement than other nitrogen gas executions.

Alabama executes Gregory Hunt by nitrogen gas for 1988 murder of Karen Lane

Hunt's execution marks Alabama's third this year, on pace to match the six it carried out last year, and the fifth time it used the controversial method.