A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

The governor of the US state of Alabama Kay Ivey says prison officials have put to death Eugene Kenneth Smith, a convicted murderer, completing the first execution using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas.

A 58-year-old murderer is set to be put to death within hours in an untested execution method which the UN has likened to “torture”. The state of Alabama has 30 hours from 6am Thursday (11pm AEDT) to ...

Politicians in South Carolina have voted to add a firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs — a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row ...

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state's ...