It was the fifth time nitrogen gas was used in the U.S. after four executions by the same method — all in Alabama.

James Osgood, a 55-year-old death row inmate, was convicted of the 2010 rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County ...

Until Tuesday, only one state, Alabama, had used nitrogen gas to put inmates to death. The state made history last year with its first such execution and has conducted three others using nitrogen ...

The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set an April execution date for a man who dropped his appeals and asked to be put to ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall ... a court case that found that “every method of execution involves a period during which the inmate experiences psychological pain because he realizes ...

On April 24, in the state of Alabama, an execution will be carried out on James Osgood. "A couple of years ago I really screwed up. I’m guilty and I deserve death. That’s what I want," the man said.

Last week the Alabama Supreme Court granted the state attorney general’s request to authorize an execution date for Myers using nitrogen gas. The next step was for Ivey to set that date.