Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

The Supreme Court is weighing Alabama’s nitrogen execution after a judge ruled the method unconstitutional.

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

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

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — was called off after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution ...

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

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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 ...

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 ...