The Islamic Republic of Iran has accelerated its executions of dissidents and activists, with the true number of victims likely obscured by the regime’s internet censorship and blackout. Ever since ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

The judge ordered the state to find an alternate method if it is going to move ahead with the execution of Jeffery Lee, who was convicted of murder, and an appeals court upheld the decision. By Rick ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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.

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...

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. US District Judge Emily C ...

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 ...

Florida is on track this year to break its own record with 20 executions, leading all states by far in carrying out the death penalty. The state accounted for about 40% of all executions nationwide ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. If her execution happens as planned in September, Christa Pike will become the fourth woman to die at the hands of the ...

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — was called off after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District ...