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cruel and unusual punishment
Coverage of cruel and unusual punishment in the Nexus archive.
- Judge bars Alabama nitrogen gas execution, says method is unconstitutionally cruel
A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
- US federal judge blocks Alabama from executing man by nitrogen gas
A US federal judge blocked Alabama from executing Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas, ruling the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision followed an appeals court reversing the judge's prior ruling that the method was constitutional.
- Judge bars Alabama nitrogen gas execution, says method is unconstitutionally cruel
A federal judge has permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas, declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.