The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...

The Supreme Court is weighing Alabama’s nitrogen execution after a judge ruled the method unconstitutional.

Correction officials confirmed Westville can accommodate firing squad executions as lawmakers, governor and the U.S. Justice ...

The Trump administration announced Friday, April 24, that the US Department of Justice will expand the methods used to execute federal death row inmates to include firing squads, electrocution and gas ...