The state can’t execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection, argued his lawyers, because of a deal they made in a separate case ...

U.S. District Judge Emily Marks issued the ruling that could stop the execution of Alabama death row inmate Jeffery Lee this ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

A federal judge has permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S.

Jimmy Ellis, who was gunned down in his Dallas County pawnshop in 1998, had toured the country years earlier as an Elvis ...

The Supreme Court said Alabama can't execute inmate Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas, a controversial method a lower court said is likely unconstitutional.

The execution is planned for a 30-hour window between midnight June 11 and 6 a.m. June 12. Charles "Sonny" Burton was supposed to be Alabama's first execution of 2026, but in a rare move, Alabama Gov.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia.