The Supreme Court declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissenting.

The execution is planned for a 30-hour window between midnight June 11 and 6 a.m. June 12. Charles "Sonny" Burton was ...

A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

A federal judge has ruled that Alabama cannot use nitrogen hypoxia to execute death row inmate Jeffrey Lee, dealing a major blow to the state's signature execution method and raising new questions ...

Alabama is appealing a federal judge's ruling that blocks the use of nitrogen gas as an execution method for Jeffrey Lee, a death row inmate convicted in a 1998 double murder case. The Alabama ...

An Alabama death row inmate was saved from execution after a federal court ruling banned the means of the scheduled procedure. 49-year-old Jeffrey Lee was set to become the ninth person in the country ...

Activists urge Alabama to grant a life sentence without parole to Jeffrey Lee, who was sentenced to death via judicial override in 2000.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its first execution of 2026 Thursday evening, putting Jeffrey Lee to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for ...