Alabama

This method was used for the first time in Alabama last week. For at least two minutes, Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney

Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime

Kenneth Eugene Smith was found guilty of murdering a woman in the 1980s and had survived another attempt at execution by lethal injection in which the vein could not be found

Death row convict Kenneth Eugene Smith, who is scheduled to die on Thursday, survived the first attempt in 2022, when the executioner was unable to raise the vein to administer a lethal injection

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia

The Court of Appeals heard diverging descriptions of the humaneness and potential risks of the proposed method, which no state has previously attempted to use

The storms and frigid temperatures affected everything from air travel to NFL playoff games to Iowa’s presidential caucuses, and were also the cause of several deaths around the country

Inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith’s attorneys said the method is cruel and experimental and are expected to appeal the decision

The weather has already affected campaigning for Iowa’s Jan. 15 precinct caucuses, where the snow is expected to be followed by frigid temperatures

Across the U.S. in 2022, the most recent year that figures are available, there were 96.6 adult men for every 100 adult women

The state that propelled George Wallace, a Democrat and four-term governor, into national politics is now dominated by Republicans loyal to Donald Trump

A second-term governor and wealthy software entrepreneur, was little known nationally when he launched his presidential campaign in June

The Seminoles lost star quarterback Jordan Travis to a season-ending injury two weeks ago. They continued to win, but the committee passed them over

Experts say it remains uncertain if the public’s waning support of the death penalty and its declining use will ultimately result in its abolition

It’s also been increasingly difficult for medical providers to get benzathine penicillin injections — the main medical weapon against congenital syphilis — because of supply shortages

To make the stage, candidates must garner at least 6% in two approved national polls and amass at least 800,000 unique donors

Adm. Lisa Franchetti will lead the Navy. Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville put a hold to fight the Pentagon’s policy of paying for travel of service members to get an abortion

The state will have to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s 56-member state Senate and five new Black-majority districts in its 180-member state House

The $500 million in grants came from last year’s CHIPS and Science Act to stimulate investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotech

The plan sets the stage for potentially flipping one U.S. House of Representatives seat from Republican to Democratic control and for a second Black Congressional representative in Alabama

The Florida representative, part of the most hard-line wing of the Republican Party, has shown a keen desire for the spotlight in his six years in Washington

The justices, without any noted dissent, rejected the state’s plea to retain Republican-drawn lines that were turned down by a lower court

In blocking the newly drawn congressional map, the three-judge panel wrote that they are ‘deeply troubled’ that Alabama lawmakers flouted their instruction to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it

The journalist and cook from Alabama, based in San Sebastian, succeeded with a book on Basque gastronomy and has become an advocate of the Spanish culinary culture in the United States

New rulings on the bans may be imminent in Florida, Missouri and Texas in the coming week. A federal appeals court panel allowed Alabama to enforce its ban on the medical care for youth

In the decades before and after 1963, Black churches and denominations have had diverse priorities and political approaches