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 ...

Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is ready to activate the modern iteration of “Old Sparky” as ...

Attorneys for an Alabama death row inmate who successfully challenged Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol last month ...

Still, at least some death row inmates have chosen electrocution or firing squad when offered the choice between those methods and lethal injection. Those choices likely reflect more about the number ...

Alabama was temporarily barred from executing death row inmate Jeffery Lee by nitrogen hypoxia in June 2026 after he ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, holding ...

Two death row inmates are scheduled to be put to death on the same day in Florida — the first double execution in the ...

Attorneys representing death row prisoner James Duckett contend that Florida is proceeding with his July 28 execution ...

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 ...

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 ...