The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to let Alabama execute a man with nitrogen gas. The justices refused to lift an ...

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

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

The Supreme Court declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissenting.

Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the execution of Jeffery Lee to proceed as scheduled on Thursday night. The lower ...

Lower courts had earlier blocked the execution method, finding it likely violates the constitutional 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 ...

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

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a ...

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 ...

Because of the ruling, Jeffery Lee's execution will be delayed. He still faces the death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Thursday evening that Alabama cannot immediately execute a man using ...