A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.U.S.

A federal appeals court says Alabama's use of nitrogen gas for executions needs more study to see if it violates the ...

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The judge ordered the state to find an alternate method if it is going to move ahead with the execution of Jeffery Lee, who was convicted of murder.

The execution is planned for a 30-hour window between midnight June 11 and 6 a.m. June 12. Charles "Sonny" Burton was ...

A breakthrough hydrogen-production method could make clean fuel far cheaper and easier to generate. Researchers at the University of Birmingham developed a perovskite-based catalyst that splits water ...

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A team of researchers led by Das and Matthias Beller of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis designed a light-activated iron catalyst that plucks oxygen atoms from CO 2 at room temperature and uses ...