The Supreme Court rejected an Alabama death row inmate’s last-minute request for a stay of execution over the proposed use of an untested method: lethal gas.
The Supreme Court rejected an Alabama death row inmate’s last-minute request for a stay of execution over the proposed use of an untested method: lethal gas.
The Arizona Supreme Court set a May 11 execution date for Dixon, who was sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of an Arizona State University student.
Arizona ‘refurbishes’ its gas chamber to prepare for executions, documents revealThe corrections department has spent more than $2,000 on ingredients to make cyanide gas, the same used in Auschwitz The state prison in Florence, Arizona, houses the gas chamber. Built in 1949 and mothballed for 22 years, it’s been dusted off and ‘refurbished’. Photograph: AP