Alabama is to execute a man for pawnshop killings months after his nitrogen gas execution was blocked by a judge

From the Newshound archive · first published 19 September 2026.

Alabama is set to carry out a lethal injection execution of a death row prisoner whose earlier nitrogen gas execution was blocked by a court order. The man was convicted of killings at a pawnshop. The execution had previously been halted after a judge intervened to stop the state using nitrogen gas as the method of execution.

The case marks one of the most legally contested executions in Alabama's recent history, with courts intervening over the chosen method.

Alabama has pushed ahead with the chemical injection execution after the court ruled out nitrogen gas as the method.