Alabama executed a man with a chemical injection Thursday, months after a judge blocked the state from putting him to death with nitrogen gas.

The justices rejected Alabama’s emergency request to lift lower-court orders that barred the state from using nitrogen gas on Lee. The ruling was procedural, not a final nationwide judgment on the ...

In January 2024, spiritual advisor Reverend Jeff Hood stood witness in Alabama to the country's first nitrogen execution. It was a horrific experience, he says, like watching a goldfish out of water, ...

History suggests that once one state adopts a new execution method, other states are certain to follow. That explains why Louisiana wants to imitate Alabama’s embrace of nitrogen hypoxia — even though ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against nitrogen gas as an execution method. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI June 12 (UPI) -- The ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to overturn a lower court ruling that barred Alabama from using nitrogen gas to carry out the execution of a death row inmate who was convicted in 1998 for ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) -- 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 ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — 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 ruling that found the method is ...

On Monday, Jeffery Lee’s attorneys said Alabama shouldn’t be allowed to execute him via lethal injection as a backup plan after the federal courts said the state couldn’t use nitrogen in the same way ...

After a federal court prevented Alabama from executing a death row inmate with nitrogen gas, the state has set a new date for his execution using a different method. In a letter to ADOC Commissioner ...