Death row inmates Derrick Dearman and Jamie Mills were executed last year with traces of meth in their bodies, while Carey ...

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The bill would allow death row inmates to choose their form of execution. If lethal injection is chosen but not available, the state would employ nitrogen hypoxia.

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 ...