Alabama plans to execute Demetrius Frazier with nitrogen gas on Feb. 6. His lawyers are staging the usual challenges re: the constitutionality of suffocation by nitrogen, but they also tried something different: appealing to an abolition state to step in and stop the execution. They alleged that Frazier, who confessed to the crime that put him on Alabama's death row while he was incarcerated for other crimes in Michigan, is being illegally detained by Alabama and should be returned to Michigan, which abolished the death penalty in 1964.

We've uncovered new details about Absolute Standards, the CT business accused of selling a lethal drug used in the federal execution spree.

"They basically bragged about how they built this little home market.”

w/ Dan Moritz-Rabson for @theintercept:

theintercept.com/2024/04/25/abs… A former BOP official told us about the agency's arduous search for pentobarbital. A team of people was calling suppliers off a list. “I know that we had people that were just calling every company that they could to find out if they were able and willing to produce it.”