Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General's office asked the Alabama Supreme ...

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 ...

A federal Alabama judge has prohibited the state from executing an inmate this week using the controversial new method of nitrogen gas, ruling that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in ...

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 federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama man facing the death penalty by nitrogen gas was spared Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to set aside a lower-court ruling that found the method is ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to overrule a federal judge’s order that blocked Alabama from executing an inmate accused of murder with nitrogen gas. Jeffery Lee was set to be executed at 6 ...

The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively new execution method. By Rick Rojas and Abbie VanSickle The Supreme Court ...

A federal judge blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, ruling that the method violates the Eighth Amendment’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Judge ...