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

An Alabama death row inmate was saved from execution after a federal court ruling banned the means of the scheduled procedure ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a legal back and forth over ways to die, a federal judge said that an Alabama Death Row inmate can not be put to death ...

If three executions move forward in Arizona, Tennessee and Florida, the U.S. will see the deadliest week for the death ...

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the amount of time it takes an inmate to die with the nitrogen gas method is ...

(RNS) — At the heart of Alabama’s latest death penalty controversy is Jeffery Lee, who became a Christian mentor to other ...

The execution of an Alabama inmate set to die next week by breathing in nitrogen gas is constitutional and can go forward, a federal judge said. Jeffery Lee is set to die on June 11 at William C.