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Alabama schedules nitrogen gas execution for convict who survived lethal injection attempt

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Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first to put a person to death with the previously untested method.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a Sept. 26 execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of killing three men during a 1999 workplace shooting. The execution will be carried out by nitrogen gas, the governor’s office said. Miller survived a 2022 lethal injection attempt.

The governor’s action comes a week after the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution.

ALABAMA SETS EXECUTION DATE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING DELIVERY DRIVER DURING ATTEMPTED ROBBERY

In January, Alabama used nitrogen gas to execute Kenneth Smith. Smith shook and convulsed in seizure-like movements for several minutes on a gurney as he was put to death Jan. 25.

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Alan Miller is on death row in Alabama. (Alabama Department of Corrections)

A nitrogen hypoxia execution causes death by forcing the inmate to breathe pure nitrogen, depriving him or her of the oxygen needed to maintain bodily functions. Alabama and some other states have looked for new ways to execute inmates because the drugs used in lethal injections, the most common execution method in the United States, are increasingly difficult to find.

Miller has an ongoing federal lawsuit challenging the execution method as a violation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, citing witness descriptions of Smith’s death.

“Rather than address these failures, the State of Alabama has attempted to maintain secrecy and avoid public scrutiny, in part by misrepresenting what happened in this botched execution,” the lawyers wrote in the lawsuit. It is anticipated that his attorneys will ask a federal judge to block the execution from going forward.

Attorney General Steve Marshall maintained that Smith’s execution was “textbook” and said the state will seek to carry out more death sentences using nitrogen gas.

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State attorneys added that Miller has been on death row since 2000 and that it is time to carry out his sentence.

Miller, a delivery truck driver, was convicted of killing Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy in the workplace shootings.

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Florida investigates Muslim school over imam's antisemitic video, threatens to nix taxpayer-funded vouchers

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Education officials in Florida have launched an investigation into a private Muslim school after an antisemitic-laced video of an Imam calling for the annihilation of Jews came to light. 

The Florida Department of Education on Thursday wrote to Reviver Academy demanding it explain its relationship with Imam Dr. Fadi Kablawi, who made the inflammatory remarks during a sermon at Masjid As Sunnah An Nabawiyyah in North Miami. The mosque is located on the grounds of the school.

The officials are asking the school to turn over a list of all its owners, leaders, operators and employees or risk losing its taxpayer-funded vouchers. Florida state Representative Randy Fine says the school has received $500,000 in vouchers that currently benefit 74 students.

FLORIDA IMAM AND DENTIST CALLS FOR ‘ANNIHILATION’ OF JEWS, SAYS ISRAELI MILITARY ‘WORSE THAN THE NAZIS’

Dr. Fadi Kablawi in his antisemitic video. (MEMRI TV)

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Officials are also calling for the school to reveal if it is owned by the mosque, what relationship Kablawi has with the school and its students, and if any students were present for the Imam’s speech. 

“In Florida, we will not tolerate calls for genocide,” Cathy Russell, the deputy executive director of the Florida Department of Education, wrote in a letter to the school on May 16.

“This is especially true where they are made in the presence of students,” wrote Russel, who added that the school may be in violation of the voucher program given Kablawi’s possible links to the institution.

In Florida, families are legally allowed to use taxpayer-funded vouchers to pay tuition at the school of their choice, according to the Miami Herald. That includes private religious schools, such as Reviver Academy.

The Imam’s video, which was live-streamed to Facebook on April 26, shows Kablawi describing the Israeli military as being “worse than the Nazis” and accusing it of trafficking organs.

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DEARBORN IMAM CONFRONTED ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ PROTESTER

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Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz with Gov. Ron DeSantis at a press conference in Miami on May 9, 2023.  (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“Oh Allah, support our oppressed brothers in Palestine. Oh Allah, annihilate the tyrannical Jews. Oh Allah, annihilate them, for they are no match for you,” Kablawi can be heard saying in the sermon, according to a translation by MEMRI TV, the media arm of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

“Oh Allah,” Kablawi continued, “annihilate the brothers of apes and pigs. Oh Allah, demonstrate upon them the wonders of your might. Oh Allah, cut off their seed. Oh Allah, break up their fellowship. Oh Allah, disperse them and rend them asunder.”

Russel also told Reviver Academy that officials want all information pertaining to the Imam’s speech. It has one week to respond to all the demands. 

The investigation comes amid a wave of antisemitism on college campuses

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The investigation comes amid a wave of antisemitism on college campuses. A student waves a Palestinian flag among the crowd at George Washington University’s Yard on April 27, 2024.  (ALI KHALIGH/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to Kablawi for comment but did not immediately receive a response. The Miami Herald says Kablawi told the publication he intends to get attorneys involved should the state take any action against him.

The investigation comes after Republican State Rep. Randy Fine wrote to the Florida Department of Education calling on it to suspend the school’s eligibility for taxpayer funding and for it to launch an investigation into the school. The Florida Legislative Jewish Caucus and the non-profit StopAntisemitism backed Fine’s calls. 

Fine also wrote to the Florida Board of Dentistry, requesting Kablawi’s dental license be suspended and an investigation into his practice be launched. 

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Lara Trump, Kevin Sorbo tout traditional values in new children's books at Florida story hours

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Lara Trump and Kevin Sorbo have joined the Herculean effort to offer lessons to kids in traditional values amid a current culture that appears to reject them. 

Each celebrity is the author of a new children’s title published by Brave Books of Texas. 

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Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, is the author of “The Never-Give-Up Pup.”

LARA TRUMP, OUT WITH NEW KIDS BOOK, STRESSES NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING FOR BEDROCK AMERICAN VALUES

The book offers lessons in determination and the American Dream. She is scheduled to bring the book to Elisabeth Lahti Library in Indiantown, Florida on Friday, May 17.

Sorbo rose to fame as the musclebound Greek god in 1990s television series “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.”

Lara Trump is the author of “The Never-Give-Up Pup,” published by Brave Books. It teaches children the values of hard work and the American Dream. (Brave Books)

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He flexes his muscles on behalf of male role models in his new book, “The Bear Essentials of Fatherhood.”

The actor and producer is sharing tales from his title on Saturday at Northeast Dade-Aventura Library in Aventura, Florida.

“I’m spreading a message of masculinity and the importance of fatherhood in our culture to local families who love God and America,” Sorbo said via email to Fox News Digital. 

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His effort comes, he said, “while men are dressing in women’s clothing and reading inappropriate books to kids.”

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Both books and story hours arrive from publisher Brave Books. 

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Kirk Cameron, Christian actor, producer and children’s book author, leads the Pledge of Allegiance at a library story hour in August 2023 in Taylor, Texas.  (Courtesy Kirk Cameron/Brave Books)

The company has been at the forefront of the culture wars since it was founded in 2021 to team with “people of moral integrity and influence to write a new children’s book every month that teaches different traditional biblical and American values,” the company said.

Christian actor, author and producer Kirk Cameron has been its most notable writer and messenger.

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He and the publisher have alleged that public schools and libraries have been hostile to traditional values even as they allow events and story hours for children with sexualized and inappropriate content.

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“Now is the perfect moment to teach our next generations the value and joy of working hard toward our goals.”

“We obtained reports of the government-funded American Library Association circulating guidance to sabotage conservative (and Christian) parent groups from gathering in libraries on Aug. 5, 2023,” Cameron and Brave Books told Fox News Digital last year.

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Cameron, the former teen-idol star of TV sitcom “Growing Pains,” believes that Lara Trump and Kevin Sorbo represent a rebirth of faith and freedom in the United States.

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Actor and producer Kevin Sorbo is the author of “The Bear Essentials of Fatherhood,” a new children’s title from publisher Brave Books that promotes the values of dads and masculinity. It’s his second book with the publisher. (Brave Books)

“False systems eventually fail,” Cameron said in a statement this week to Fox News Digital. 

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“And I can already feel the rumblings of spiritual revival happening in libraries, schools, churches and homes all across this nation.” 

For her part, Lara Trump hopes the movement is a harbinger of victory for father-in-law, Donald Trump. 

The 45th president is attempting to unseat President Joe Biden in November and regain the White House.

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“It will take the hard work and perseverance of every patriot to ensure victory this November,” Trump told Fox News Digital.

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Kevin Sorbo and Lara Trump are the authors of values-oriented new children’s books, both published by Brave Books. “The Bears Essentials of Fatherhood” by Sorbo touts masculinity and the importance of dads; “The Never-Give-Up Pup” by Trump offers lessons in determination. (Brave Books)

“Now is the perfect moment to teach our next generations the value and joy of working hard toward our goals,” she said.

Anyone can learn more about the many “pro-God, pro-America” publications by Brave Books by visiting its website.

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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett's cause of death revealed as coroner releases official findings

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Charleston, South Carolina, investigators have released their findings in the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who was found dead in his truck in March after he failed to show up for his second day of depositions in a lawsuit against the aerospace manufacturer.

After Barnett failed to arrive for the proceedings, his lawyers called for a wellness check, and he was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the parking lot of his hotel, according to authorities.

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He had a pistol in his right hand, and investigators later confirmed gunshot residue on his hand. They found a single shell casing in the truck and a suicide note on his passenger seat.

BOEING WHISTLEBLOWER’S MOM LAYS BLAME FOR SON’S DEATH, DEEMED APPARENT SUICIDE, IN NEW INTERVIEW

“All findings were consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the report from Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal reads.

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His official cause of death is the gunshot wound. The manner “is best deemed, ‘Suicide.’” the coroner concluded.

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Additionally, police said he was locked inside his vehicle alone when they found him, along with the key fob. They found no signs of unusual travel patterns or communications in his phone records, and hotel surveillance video showed him leaving the hotel by himself before he reversed into a parking spot a few minutes later. 

No one came or went from the vehicle until the grim discovery the following morning.

BOEING WHISTLEBLOWER JOHN BARNETT WAS SPIED ON, HARASSED BY MANAGERS, LAWSUIT CLAIMS 

Police said records showed Barnett bought the handgun legally in 2000, and they found his fingerprints on the notebook containing his suicide letter.

He was suing Boeing, claiming that he had been retaliated against, harassed and spied on by the company.

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Signage outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, on Feb. 5. (David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

One of Barnett’s lawyers, Robert Turkewitz, previously told Fox News that he didn’t think the aerospace giant had played a role in his client’s death. However, he added that “it just didn’t make sense” that he would kill himself.

Barnett’s legal team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the coroner’s findings.

BOEING WHISTLEBLOWER’S LAWYERS DEMAND FULL INVESTIGATION INTO MYSTERIOUS DEATH MID-DEPOSITION

Barnett worked for Boeing for over three decades before retiring in 2017 as a quality-control engineer. In 2019, he told the BBC that Boeing would rush to get its 787 Dreamliner jets off the production line, compromising safety.  

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Boeing 787 Dreamliners are built at the aviation company’s North Charleston, South Carolina, assembly plant on May 30, 2023. (Juliette Michel/AFP via Getty Images)

In January, Barnett told TMZ that he was concerned that Boeing was returning its 737 Max 9 jets to the sky too quickly, after an incident in which an Alaska Airlines jet’s door panel blew off mid-flight.

Unrelated to Barnett’s lawsuit, Boeing’s CEO Dave Calhoun announced he would be resigning by the end of the year amid the company’s ongoing struggles.

This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.

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