Supreme Court rejects Alabama request for nitrogen gas execution
The state says nitrogen gas is constitutional and asks the court to let the execution proceed after two federal courts blocked it.
- Alabama asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the execution of death row inmate Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas after a federal judge ruled the method unconstitutional and blocked the execution.
- Lee's attorneys urged the Supreme Court to keep the execution on hold, arguing that Alabama was seeking to proceed with a method that courts had found could violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
- The Supreme Court ultimately rejected Alabama's request, leaving the injunction in place and preventing the state from carrying out the execution by nitrogen gas while legal challenges to the method continue.
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Supreme Court Declines Alabama's Nitrogen Gas Execution
The Supreme Court has declined to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas to carry out a death penalty. In an unsigned order on the case, the Court wrote, “The application for stay or vacatur presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Gorsuch would grant the application for stay or vacatur.” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a…
US Supreme Court leaves stay against Alabama's nitrogen gas executions in place
The U.S. Supreme Court, pictured on April 9, 2026. The Supreme Court Thursday evening allowed a stay against Alabama's use of nitrogen gas executions to stay in place. (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday upheld two lower court rulings that found Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol unconstitutional, ending for now a short but intense legal battle over Alabama’s execution methods; what constituted an acceptable lev…
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