An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death ... about 13 minutes into the process, according to Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm. He added that he believed ...

Patrick Grayson Spann escaped from the Hinds County detention facility in Mississippi, took a dead man's name and had two ...

Frazier was the fourth inmate to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that has drawn controversy and legal challenges. Alabama prison officials maintain that nitrogen hypoxia is a painless ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system ...

(Alabama Department of Corrections) During the execution a gas mask is placed over the inmate’s face, replacing breathable oxygen with pure nitrogen gas, killing them by lack of oxygen.

A “vicious” killer and rapist was executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday, becoming the fourth death row inmate in the U.S. to be die by with nitrogen hypoxia. Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was ...