An Alabama death row inmate was saved from execution after a federal court ruling banned the means of the scheduled procedure ...

Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Thursday afternoon that 41-year-old Jeremy Tremaine Williams is scheduled to be executed by the ...

A late-night Supreme Court order has kept Alabama from executing Jeffery Lee by nitrogen gas, while leaving the larger ...

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

A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

Moments after a federal judge permanently blocked Jeffery Lee’s execution by nitrogen gas in Alabama, Lee told NBC News he ...

Advocates for death row inmates in Louisiana are praising a decision this month by the U.S. Supreme Court that barred Alabama ...

U.S. District Judge Emily Marks issued the ruling that could stop the execution of Alabama death row inmate Jeffrey Lee this ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward ...

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

A shadow docket reveals that for some justices, there are limits to how cruel an execution can be. And for others, there are ...