Capital Punishment

Randy Halprin, 45, was among the inmates who escaped from a Texas prison in Dec. 2000, committing numerous robberies and killing Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins

Attorneys for Benjamin Cole, 57, who killed his 9-month-old daughter, Breanna, in 2002, argued that he is severely mentally ill

The last-minute reprieve came nearly three hours after a divided U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for the execution to begin

Yusef Maisonet, an imam to Muslim death row inmates Dominique Ray and Nathaniel Wood, alleged that Alabama violated his rights by barring him from attending the inmates’ executions

While the method has never been used, some argue that it will be more humane than the state’s current three-drug lethal injection cocktail

The book spotlights Jarvis Masters' legal battle to overturn his death sentence in the murder of a corrections officer

While nitrogen hypoxia has been authorized by Alabama and two other states for executions, it has never been used by a state

States began proposing nitrogen hypoxia as an alternate execution method because of difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs and ongoing litigation

Lawyers for four men on the state's death row testified that the prisoners would feel terrible pain whether their bodies were “cooking” by electricity or heart stopped by a marksman’s bullet

Lawsuit concerns how state handled rollout of letting the men and women awaiting execution know about ending their lives via nitrogen hypoxia

State argued the lawsuit by Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting in 1999, does not state a claim a judge could use to block the execution

The group cited the length of time that passed before Joe Nathan James Jr. received the lethal injection and a private autopsy indicating his arm may have been cut to find a vein

Gov. Kevin Stitt declined to commute Coddington’s sentence to life in prison without parole and rejected his petition for clemency

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against James Coddington's appeal, stating his claims "allege only a theoretical possibility that something might go wrong"