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 ...

The Supreme Court is weighing Alabama’s nitrogen execution after a judge ruled the method unconstitutional.

Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the execution of Jeffery Lee to proceed as scheduled on Thursday night. The lower ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama’s method of executing prisoners with nitrogen gas could cause “intolerable” suffering, reversing a lower court’s decision and setting up a legal battle ahead ...

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 ...

Lower courts had found the method of execution to be a cruel and unusual punishment ...

The Supreme Court said Alabama can't execute inmate Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas, a controversial method a lower court said is likely unconstitutional.

In Wilkerson v. Utah in 1878, the Supreme Court ruled that death by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment “ ...

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 rul ...

From lethal injection to nitrogen gas, here’s a look at the execution methods allowed under Alabama law.

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 ...