Alabama sets a June date for its 5th execution using nitrogen gas

Alabama sets a June date for its 5th execution using nitrogen gas

Alabama plans to carry out its latest execution using nitrogen gas next month. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death on June 10 for the 1988 beating death of Karen Lane.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sets execution of death row inmate for 1988 Walker County slaying

The execution of Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman has been set for June by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.

Alabama schedules third execution of the year

Gregory Hunt was convicted of the 1988 murder of Karen Lane in Walker County and sentenced to death. (Alabama Department of Corrections)Gov. Kay Ivey Wednesday set a June execution date for  Gregory Hunt, 65, for his role in the murder of Karen Lane in 1988. The execution, scheduled for June 10, would be the third in Alabama this year and the second to use nitrogen gas. According to court documents, Lane was in an apartment she was visiting on A…

Nitrogen gas that suffocated TimkenSteel security guard was ‘non-toxic,' Ohio Supreme Court rules - Signal Cleveland

Within seconds of walking into an industrial elevator’s control room at a TimkenSteel plant near Canton, Ken Ray, a 32-year-old firefighter who moonlit there as a security guard on the weekends, died of asphyxiation.  No one knew at the time, but nitrogen had continuously leaked into the room from a device designed to blast small puffs of pressurized gas to dust off the ventilation filters. Oxygen typically comprises about 21% of ambient air. On…

Alabama inmate wants his execution to happen, saying he believes in ‘an eye for an eye’

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