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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lawyers for the only woman on Tennessee's death row have filed a motion with the Tennessee Supreme Court, arguing that the ...

In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket.

Christa Pike, poised to be the first woman Tennessee executes by lethal injection, is pleading with the Tennessee Supreme Court to spare her. Her attorneys’ arguments lean on Pike’s childhood sexual ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho prison officials have outlined detailed rules and training requirements for carrying out executions by firing squad, which will become the state’s main form of execution beginning ...

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 ...

Twenty-six years ago, Jeffrey Lee was sentenced to death for a double homicide and attempted murder he committed in a Dallas County pawn shop in 1998. But the jury didn't vote to put him to death — ...

"In this country's history, we've never had that many states adopt firing squads ever." In firing squad executions, a condemned person is usually bound to a chair and is shot through the heart by ...