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

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Alabama was temporarily barred from executing death row inmate Jeffery Lee by nitrogen hypoxia in June 2026 after he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abraham Bonowitz, of the group Death Penalty Action, leads a demonstration outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lethal injection chamber at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington, US, September 6, 2024. (photo credit: ...

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

Lethal injection remains the primary method in most states Twenty-eight states and the federal government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an inmate has one or more deadly drugs ...

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 ...

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 ...