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

Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state's use of nitrogen gas to put ...

A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method violates the ban on ...

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 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

The ruling, which calls Alabama's nitrogen execution method "likely-unconstitutional," sets up the state for a Supreme Court ...

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

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A federal judge has upheld Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method is not ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it ...

Montgomery, Ala. — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that execution by nitrogen gas doesn't violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate's claim that it ...

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

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after ...