Alabama on Thursday evening plans to carry out the first known judicial execution of a prisoner using asphyxiation with nitrogen gas, a closely watched new method the state hopes to advance as a ...

Jan 24 (Reuters) - If federal courts give the green light, Alabama plans on Thursday to pioneer the first new method of judicial execution since lethal injections were introduced in 1982. The new ...

President Trump's administration endeavors to reverse death penalty decisions made by predecessors, but faces significant ...

In early 2021, a committee of a judicial task force on COVID instructed lawyers for death row prisoners and the state attorney general's office to determine terms under which executions could resume.

Executions would not restart until six months after three conditions had been met, according to the agreement: the expiration of the state’s COVID-19 judicial emergency, the resumption of normal ...

Executions would not restart until six months after three conditions had been met, according to the agreement: the expiration of the state’s COVID-19 judicial emergency, the resumption of normal ...