Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jury convicted Jeffrey Lee, 50, of the 1998 murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson during a pawn shop robbery. A federal ...

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

Montgomery, Ala. — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that execution by nitrogen gas doesn't violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate's claim that it ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate’s claim ...

The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to lift a stay on federal executions, temporarily thwarting plans by Donald Trump’s Justice Department to imminently resume capital punishment. There have been ...

Federal appellate judges have revived a lawsuit by some Georgia death row prisoners alleging the state is unfairly favoring ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The only Native American on federal death row is set to die at an Indiana prison for slaying a 9-year-old and her grandmother. Many Navajos are hoping for last-minute intervention by ...