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Alabama executes man by nitrogen gas for the first time in the U.S.

Kenneth Smith, 58, died at 8:25 p.m. Thursday, after a slew of last-minute appeals to several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, failed.

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Alabama’s execution problems are part of a long history of botched lethal injections

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has announced a pause in her state’s use of capital punishment. It follows a run of botched lethal injection executions in the state, including two where the procedure had to be abandoned before the inmates succumbed to the cocktail of death drugs.

The Conversation

Alabama halts executions; can't fix them

After a gruesome series of executions gone wrong, Gov. Kay Ivey hits pause. But there's no fixing the death penalty

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Alabama's Governor Calls for a Moratorium on Executions in the State

While the pause comes as a relief to those opposed to the death penalty, Ivey's full-throated defense of the practice makes it clear that she seeks only a temporary pause in executions, not an end to the policy.

Reason

Alabama Execution Called Off Because Officials Couldn't Insert Needle

For the second time in three months, the state struggles and fails to execute a death row inmate.

Reason

Alabama abandons execution after failing to find vein for lethal injection

Alan Miller’s judicial killing called off two months after execution of Joe Nathan James took three hours

The Guardian - US

Alabama plans to kill a man: But how?

Alabama offered death-row inmates an untested method of execution — and then went back to the even worse option

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An Alabama Prison Allegedly Botched a Man's Execution. Officials Deny That Anything Unusual Occurred.

Joe Nathan James appeared to have suffered for hours as prison officials tried to establish an IV for lethal injection.

Reason

Murderer's hands and wrists 'burst by needles' during lethal injection execution

The execution by lethal injection of murderer Joe Nathan James was completed after his hands and wrists were "burst by needles" as an independent autopsy showed a number of puncture wounds

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