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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 U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Thursday evening that Alabama cannot immediately execute a man using nitrogen gas. The decision upheld a lower court order that had blocked the execution on grounds ...

On June 11 the Supreme Court received, and subsequently rejected, a request from the state of Alabama to proceed with the nitrogen gas execution of 49-year-old Jeffrey Lee, which had been scheduled ...

Alabama's effort to execute death row inmate Jeffery Lee on Thursday night was halted after the U.S. Supreme Court declined the state's request to move forward with the execution using nitrogen ...

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 ...

Threat actors have begun exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in the popular low-code AI development platform Langflow, according to VulnCheck. Tracked as CVE-2026-5027 (CVSS score of 8.8), the ...

A death row prisoner whose planned execution Thursday was suddenly halted became emotional when he learned that a federal court had ruled Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas violates the constitutional ban ...