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

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the ...

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — was called off after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution ...

Alabama is likely taking their fight to defend the state’s controversial nitrogen gas execution method to the U.S. Supreme Court after an appellate court late Wednesday agreed that it was ...

The judge ordered the state to find an alternate method if it is going to move ahead with the execution of Jeffery Lee, who was convicted of murder, and an appeals court upheld the decision. By Rick ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

A federal Alabama judge has prohibited the state from executing an inmate this week using the controversial new method of nitrogen gas, ruling that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in ...

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

Tennessee’s failure to execute a man by lethal injection last month after no one could locate a suitable vein led to a rare unmasking: Not only was a practicing physician identified as a participant ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled for execution on June 25 for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen Spencer. The murder occurred after a history of domestic violence, including a prior attack with a steam ...