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

Alabama can’t execute a prisoner using its current nitrogen execution process, said the man’s lawyers, but that doesn’t mean the state couldn’t change that process. Jeffery Lee was supposed to die by ...

The day after Alabama carried out the first-known US execution using nitrogen gas, its attorney general sent a clear message to death penalty states that might want to follow suit: “Alabama has done ...

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

Emily C Marks finds method proposed to kill Jeffery Lee violates ban on cruel and unusual punishment ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Thursday evening that Alabama cannot immediately execute a man using nitrogen gas. The ...

Lee’s case became the latest to test the legality of nitrogen gas executions. A lower court had ruled the method is unconstitutionally cruel.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again placed the U.S. at the forefront of the ...

Toward the end of June 2018, condemned inmates at Holman Correctional Facility in southern Alabama received slips of paper that gave them the choice to decide how they would prefer to die. There were ...

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

Two federal court rulings last month that barred Alabama from carrying out nitrogen gas executions could echo beyond Alabama, say experts, including in Ohio where nitrogen gas executions have been ...

Key opportunities in the nitrogen pumping skid market include the rising demand for enhanced oil recovery, portable nitrogen ...