Appeals court upholds ruling declaring Alabama’s nitrogen gas executions unconstitutional

A federal appeals court Wednesday evening upheld a lower court ruling declaring Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, U.S. District Judges Adalberto Jordan and Embry Kidd, who on Monday ruled that the process created “air hunger” that went beyond the pain expected in an execution, wrote that attorneys for the state […]

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