The judge ordered the state to find an alternate method if it is going to move ahead with the execution of Jeffery Lee, who was convicted of murder, and an appeals court upheld the decision. By Rick ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...

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A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. US District Judge Emily C ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 11 said Alabama can’t immediately execute a death row inmate using a controversial method of nitrogen gas that a lower court said is likely unconstitutional.

A Florida man who confessed to killing his girlfriend's infant daughter and throwing her body in a pond three decades ago was executed Tuesday evening. Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, was pronounced dead ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District ...

Alabama is likely taking their fight to defend the state’s controversial nitrogen gas execution method to the U.S. Supreme Court after an appellate court late Wednesday agreed that it was ...

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A federal judge in the United States has permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, after declaring that the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. On ...

The US Supreme Court has denied an appeal by the state of Alabama to execute a man using nitrogen gas. Two lower courts had earlier blocked the use of nitrogen gas in executions, finding the method ...