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.

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 ...

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 botched execution attempt in 2024, Idaho lawmakers made death by firing squad the state's primary execution method. Lethal injection was first proposed in New York in the late 1800s, though ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 death row inmate convicted in the 2003 killing of his common-law wife is scheduled to be executed in August after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date. Carlos Cuesta ...

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Two flaws in the widely used open-source editor can be triggered through manipulated configuration files, prompting security updates from the project's maintainers. Two arbitrary code execution ...

An unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the Gogs self-hosted Git service can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on Internet-facing instances. Designed as an alternative to GitHub ...