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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 11 said Alabama can’t immediately execute a death row inmate using a controversial method of nitrogen gas that a lower court said is likely unconstitutional.

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 ...

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Barely 48 hours before he was scheduled to die, a federal court has ruled that Alabama may execute Jeffrey Lee by any method except for nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas execution method involves the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Thursday evening that Alabama cannot immediately execute a man using nitrogen gas. The decision upheld a lower court order that had blocked the execution on grounds ...

They pushed nearly 3 miles into a massive cave system expecting another brutal underground trek. Instead, deep in the darkness, they came across the remains of an ancient snake fossil hidden far ...

A 5-year-old girl was found safe in Mexico and her father was taken into custody nearly three weeks after an Amber Alert was issued for her disappearance from the West Adams neighborhood of Los ...

RADIUM, Kan. (KAKE) — A 74-year-old man was arrested on charges including drug possession and criminal possession of a weapon by a felon in Radium, Kan., early Friday morning. The Stafford County ...

Senate Democrats plan to block a sweeping government funding package after U.S. Border Patrol agents killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday — and a partial shutdown now looks likely at the end of the ...