A federal appeals court says Alabama's use of nitrogen gas for executions needs more study to see if it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. States have various ...
From lethal injection to nitrogen gas, here’s a look at the execution methods allowed under Alabama law.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the amount of time it takes an inmate to die with the nitrogen gas method is ...
The Supreme Court is weighing Alabama’s nitrogen execution after a judge ruled the method unconstitutional.
After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — is on hold after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution method ...
The Supreme Court has denied Alabama's attempt to execute a prisoner with nitrogen gas after two courts called the method ...
After a botched execution attempt in 2024, Idaho lawmakers made death by firing squad the state's primary execution method. Lethal injection was first proposed in New York in the late 1800s, though ...
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 ...