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 constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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 unusual punishment. U.S.

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a fulfillment of Mr. Trump’s executive order to resume ...

April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced on Friday, noting difficulties ...

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After a legal back and forth over ways to die, a federal judge said that an Alabama Death Row inmate can not be put to death this week using the state’s nitrogen execution method. Jeffery Lee’s execution is on hold after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that Alabama’s nitrogen method,