An Alabama death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed using nitrogen gas later this year is challenging the ...

Lawyers for a death row inmate are attempting to show that nitrogen hypoxia executions cause unnecessary suffering.

A federal judge is hearing witnesses in death row inmate Anthony Boyd's challenge to Alabama's new way of carrying out the ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has ordered the execution of death row inmate Geoffrey Todd West to be carried out using nitrogen ...

An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, hanging or medical-aid-in-dying instead. Anthony Boyd has filed a ...

A judge last month stayed the Aug. 21 execution of David Lee Roberts until a mental evaluation could be conducted to see if Roberts is competent to be executed. The Alabama Department of Corrections ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled an October execution by nitrogen gas for an inmate who has an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new method as unconstitutionally cruel.

The planned Aug. 21 execution of David Lee Roberts is expected to "not occur on that date," the Alabama Department of Corrections said on Friday. Roberts, a now 59-year-old who was convicted of the ...

Eight inmates on Alabama’s Death Row have filed lawsuits challenging the state’s nitrogen execution method, calling it unconstitutional. The lawsuits, all filed separately, were each filed in federal ...

The planned execution of an Alabama death row prisoner will be postponed next week as the state awaits the completion of a court-mandated psychiatric assessment. Last month, a judge halted the August ...