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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 — ...