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

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

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

The state can’t execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection, argued his lawyers, because of a deal they made in a separate case ...

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

A federal judge has banned Alabama from executing a death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, reversing a previous opinion and concluding that the controversial and relatively new execution method is ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate’s claim ...

An Alabama death row inmate was saved from execution after a federal court ruling banned the means of the scheduled procedure. 49-year-old Jeffrey Lee was set to become the ninth person in the country ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward ...

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. Limited time: Save 25% on ...