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.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a ...

Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, who is facing a September 2026 execution date, is now suing the state, as well as several others, claiming that lethal injection could ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A woman on Tennessee's death row is fighting for her life in court, claiming the state's execution method could cause her to drown in her own blood. Christa Pike is suing the ...

Christa Gail Pike has been on death row since 1996. She murdered a woman in Knoxville with the help of her then-boyfriend. New twist in Noah Beck’s teacher mom scandal after video resurfaces Most ...

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SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County judge on Friday rejected a proposed settlement between prosecutors and convicted murderer Erik Chatman that would have given parole eligibility to the man who once ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOIO) -Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost testified before the House Judiciary Committee encouraging Ohio to become the next state to use nitrogen hypoxia to execute death row inmates.