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 ...

A man convicted in a 1997 murder and sentenced to death now has a scheduled execution, according to the Alabama Department of ...

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

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. Alabama Gov. Kay ...

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 ...

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 in Alabama has issued a stay for a convicted killer's upcoming execution while state officials investigate whether he is competent enough to be put to death. David Lee Roberts, 59, was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not go forward next week as the state waits for the completion of a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. A judge ...