ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth ...

Karen Lane was beaten to death by Gregory Hunt in 1988. On June 10, he became the fifth inmate executed by nitrogen gas.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

It was the nation’s sixth execution with nitrogen gas. The execution method involves forcing an inmate to breathe pure ...

Strapped to a gurney with a blue-rimmed mask covering his ... black-eyed peas, carrots and fruit punch, prison officials said. The Rev. Jeff Hood, a death penalty opponent who worked with Hunt ...

Hunt was wrapped in a white sheet and strapped to a gurney. A mask was affixed to his ... He ate a breakfast of biscuits, eggs, oatmeal and fruit punch and a lunch of bologna, carrots, black ...