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After a series of botched executions, Alabama could soon begin executing death row incarcerated people using lethal gas. Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, California, Wyoming and Arizona have legalized execution by lethal gas. We hear why.
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Death penalty researchers say the record-high number of mishandled executions put into question states' ability to perform them.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss supporters of abortion access dropping their initiative petition, a judge ruling against the transfer of a federal inmate to be executed in Oklahoma and a multitude of changes at Oklahoma City's Western Heights school.
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.
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The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.
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For the fifth time in 2022 and just the seventh time in nearly eight years, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate.
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NPR spoke with 26 people who were involved with more than 200 executions across the country. Most said their health suffered and they had little support to help them cope with their unusual jobs.
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For the fourth time in 2022, Oklahoma has executed a death row inmate. Benjamin Robert Cole Sr. was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:22 a.m. this morning. He was 57.
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Alabama corrections officials said the state halted the scheduled execution of Alan Miller after they determined they could not get the lethal injection underway before a midnight deadline.
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Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled for execution in Alabama on Sep. 22. He has asked for nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection due to a fear of needles, but claims officers lost his request.