Lower courts had found the method of execution to be a cruel and unusual punishment ...

The unsigned decision for now spares Jeffery Lee, a convicted murderer, and could lead to a broader fight over the relatively new execution method.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Days after the Supreme Court upheld a block on an execution by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama, an Arkansas-based critic of the method ...

Samuel L. Smithers' final appeal to halt his execution has reached the nation's highest court, one day after the Florida Supreme Court affirmed his death sentence. Smithers' attorneys filed a petition ...