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

Lower courts had found the method of execution to be a cruel and unusual punishment ...

US supreme court rejects Alabama’s request to execute a prisoner, setting up showdown over method decried by experts as brutal ...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court has refused to block the scheduled execution of a murderer in Seminole County. Edward James killed a woman and her 8-year-old granddaughter in 1993.

The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia. Ralph Leroy Menzies, ...