Overview

• Alabama executed 50-year-old Geoffrey West using nitrogen gas, a method that causes death through oxygen deprivation.
• Texas executed Blaine Milam by lethal injection in Huntsville for the 2008 killing of 13-month-old Amora Carson.
• The Death Penalty Information Center reports nine more executions scheduled over the next three months and more than 2,000 people on death row.
• This year’s tally is eight higher than all of 2024, marking a renewed rise in executions across multiple states.
• Nitrogen executions remain rare and disputed, used so far only in Alabama and Louisiana, and criticized by the U.N. as tantamount to torture.