Death Penalty Information Center

‘I don’t have no pity party’: Alabama execution set for Tuesday evening

Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be executed for the 1988 murder of Karen Lane in Walker County. It would be Alabama's fifth execution by nitrogen gas.

Alabama’s 2nd nitrogen gas execution raises questions about method’s future use

As Alabama sets the course for the controversial execution method's future, activists and legal scholars say eyewitness accounts could halt widespread adoption.