Alabama can’t execute a prisoner using its current nitrogen execution process, said the man’s lawyers, but that doesn’t mean the state couldn’t change that process. Jeffery Lee was supposed to die by ...

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 ...

A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

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

From lethal injection to nitrogen gas, here’s a look at the execution methods allowed under Alabama law.

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

Alabama is seeking to execute a death row inmate by lethal injection after a court ruled that using nitrogen gas in the case ...

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

The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a death row inmate's post-conviction challenge to his conviction and death sentence in the 2011 robbery killings of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Toforest Johnson, 49, has spent half his life on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a sheriff's deputy, a killing he says he did not commit. Johnson’s attorneys asked the ...

An Alabama death row inmate whose execution went wrong is asking that his death sentence be vacated. The attempted execution was "botched and bloody," as the inmate's lawyer put it, and left the ...