Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing Alabama's emergency request to reinstate the nitrogen gas execution of Jeffery Lee, hours ...
Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state's use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study to determine whether it violates a ...
Pope Leo XIV sent a message of support to participants at a Catholic university event marking 15 years since the abolition of the death penalty in his home state of Illinois. On the same day, the ...
The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abraham Bonowitz, of the group Death Penalty Action, leads a demonstration outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, ...