WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 11 said Alabama can’t immediately execute a death row inmate using a controversial method of nitrogen gas that a lower court said is likely unconstitutional.

Alabama is waging a last-minute legal fight to execute a man with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside a judge's findings that the method violates the Constitutio...

Despite the ruling, his fate remains uncertain: State Attorney General Steve Marshall has filed an appeal, likely sending the case up to the Supreme Court, which has previously sided with Alabama by a...