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 has permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S.

Attorneys for an Alabama death row inmate who successfully challenged Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol last month ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeffery Lee was convicted of the murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson during a pawn shop robbery in 1998. Federal courts ...

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 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Judge Emily Marks ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...