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

Texas and Alabama are poised to execute death row inmates within minutes of each other on the same day this week. On Thursday, Sept. 25, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West, 50, by the relatively ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama's nitrogen gas execution method likely inflicts a cruel and constitutionally impermissible degree of suffering on condemned inmates -- but stopped ...