Attorneys are awaiting decisions from the Nevada Supreme Court. It is unlikely the defendants will be executed this year, an ...

The National Hurricane Center has significantly increased the chances that a disturbance in the northeastern Gulf of America will develop into a tropical depres Heat and isolated strong storms remain ...

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.

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Christa Pike, poised to be the first woman Tennessee executes by lethal injection, is pleading with the Tennessee Supreme Court to spare her. Her attorneys’ arguments lean on Pike’s childhood sexual ...

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 ...

Christa Pike seeks to stop execution Posted: June 12, 2026 | Last updated: June 12, 2026 The lawyers for the only woman on Tennessee’s death row have filed a motion with the Tennessee Supreme Court, ...

A federal Alabama judge has prohibited the state from executing an inmate this week using the controversial new method of nitrogen gas, ruling that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in ...

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 ...

"In this country's history, we've never had that many states adopt firing squads ever." In firing squad executions, a condemned person is usually bound to a chair and is shot through the heart by ...