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.

A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

Lee’s lawyers asked the high court to keep the execution on hold, saying in a response that Alabama was asking it to intervene at the eleventh hour “to allow an execution that has been found unconstit ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

An Alabama death row inmate was saved from execution after a federal court ruling banned the means of the scheduled procedure. 49-year-old Jeffrey Lee was set to become the ninth person in the country ...

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

U.S. District Judge Emily Marks issued the ruling that could stop the execution of Alabama death row inmate Jeffery Lee this week.

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

The execution is planned for a 30-hour window between midnight June 11 and 6 a.m. June 12. Charles "Sonny" Burton was ...

Advocates for death row inmates in Louisiana are praising a decision this month by the U.S. Supreme Court that barred Alabama ...

Jeffery Lee is fighting to live, to escape an execution by Alabama set for Thursday evening. But the legacy of one of the people he killed in 1998 lives on in a bedazzled jumpsuit and through his ...