Alabama Supreme Court authorizes third nitrogen gas execution

MONTGOMERY, Alabama: The Alabama Supreme Court authorized this week that a third person was to be executed by nitrogen gas, months after becoming the first state to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

The court granted the state attorney general's request to authorize the execution of Carey Dale Grayson, one of four teenagers convicted in the 1994 killing of Vickie Deblieux in Jefferson Co