A Detroit man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment is set to be executed Thursday evening in Alabama in what would be the nation’s fourth execution with nitrogen gas.

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

A Michigan man on death row in Alabama is asking Governor Gretchen Whitmer for a lifeline.

Attorneys for an Alabama inmate facing execution by nitrogen gas are asking a federal judge to block the upcoming execution.