In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal correspondent and host of The Docket.

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho prison officials have outlined detailed rules and training requirements for carrying out executions by firing squad, which will become the state’s main form of execution beginning ...

After a botched execution attempt in 2024, Idaho lawmakers made death by firing squad the state's primary execution method. Lethal injection was first proposed in New York in the late 1800s, though ...

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. cyber defense agency said on Wednesday that government officials now have three days to deal with the most ‌serious categories of digital vulnerabilities in ...

U.S. Air Force Capt Kevin Lynch, 493rd Fighter Squadron pilot steps from an F-35A Lightning II aircraft in preparation for Ramstein Flag 26 at Pirkkala Air Base, Finland, June 3, 2026. (U.S. Air Force ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump's remarks about the Right to Repair movement and legislation pending in Congress on June 4 raised the visibility of the issue and how it relates to auto repairs done by vehicle ...

President Trump claimed auto executives want a bill prohibiting people from repairing their own cars. The discussion reportedly took place during a meeting with the heads of General Motors, Ford, and ...

Tennessee’s failure to execute a man by lethal injection last month after no one could locate a suitable vein led to a rare unmasking: Not only was a practicing physician identified as a participant ...

Two flaws in the widely used open-source editor can be triggered through manipulated configuration files, prompting security updates from the project's maintainers. Two arbitrary code execution ...