Tennessee's method of killing death row inmates comes into sharp focus Tuesday, with Christa Gail Pike facing an execution date Sept. 30. Senior Judge Mark Ward, acting at the state Supreme Court's ...

Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state’s use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study to determine whether it violates a ...

A special judge largely dismissed challenges by Pike, Tennessee's only female death row inmate, against the state's plan to ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the US Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...

Lethal injection remains the primary method in most states Twenty-eight states and the federal government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an inmate has one or more deadly drugs ...