Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, ...

Alabama executed Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, with nitrogen gas for a 1993 murder on Thursday, after he used his final words to maintain his innocence and criticize the justice system. Boyd was convicted of ...

Eight inmates on Alabama’s Death Row have filed lawsuits challenging the state’s nitrogen execution method, calling it unconstitutional. The lawsuits, all filed separately, were each filed in federal ...

Alabama’s new way of carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia is under review by a federal court as lawyers for a death row inmate try to establish that it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. at ...

Geoffrey Todd West is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas Thursday in Alabama. Will Berry, the son of victim Margaret Parrish Berry, says he forgives West and does not want him executed. Gov. Kay ...