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 ...

STARKE, Fla. — A Florida man who confessed to killing his girlfriend’s infant daughter and throwing her body in a pond three decades ago is set to be executed Tuesday evening. Limited time: Save 25% ...

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, ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate for the 2000 stabbing deaths of a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter. Richard Knight, 47, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 21, for the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The planned execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Tony Carruthers was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Delois Anderson was 43 years old. Marcellos Anderson was 21. Frederick Tucker was 17. For 32 years, their names have remained tied to one man inside Tennessee courtrooms, ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated attempts to find a vein for lethal injection failed. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee then granted Carruthers a ...

Tennessee halted the execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday, his attorney said, after the officers tasked with establishing an intravenous line through which to administer lethal ...

Tony Carruthers’ execution was called off Thursday and he was given a one-year reprieve after the state Department of Corrections struggled to find a vein to set a backup injection line. Limited time: ...

Tony Carruthers, convicted in connection with three 1994 murders, was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning. By Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Emily Cochrane reported from Nashville ...