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 constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

From lethal injection to nitrogen gas, here’s a look at the execution methods allowed under Alabama law.

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital ...

Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, brought on behalf of 28 death row prisoners, named officials ...