The change, expected in July, will likely block one of the more common attack vectors; developers are wondering what took GitHub so long, and why other repositories acted so much sooner. The ability ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

Delay triggered a bit of legal chaos in Atlanta courtroom with a series of unanswered questions in Stacey Ian Humphreys’ case. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney speaks at an emergency hearing at ...

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 ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a 30-hour time frame for the execution of Jeremy Williams in an order sent Thursday to the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections. The execution must occur ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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.