{"id":84671,"date":"2026-06-10T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/alabamas-nitrogen-gas-executions-constitute-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:12:47","slug":"alabamas-nitrogen-gas-executions-constitute-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/alabamas-nitrogen-gas-executions-constitute-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama&#8217;s nitrogen gas executions constitute cruel and unusual punishment, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A federal judge has banned Alabama from executing a death row inmate by <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/what-is-nitrogen-hypoxia-alabama-execution-kenneth-eugene-smith-death-row-untested-controversial\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">nitrogen hypoxia<\/a><\/span>, reversing a previous opinion that concluded the controversial and relatively new execution method is unconstitutionally cruel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.prod.cbs.com\/upload\/story\/71577\/44c208ac-133f-4b7e-b1d0-9241c21093c0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a>, issued Tuesday, permanently prevents the state from putting Jeffrey Lee, 49, to death using nitrogen gas.<\/p>\n<p>Lee was scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia \u2014 where a condemned inmate is forced to breathe pure nitrogen through a gas mask until they suffocate from the lack of oxygen \u2014 on Thursday. He has been incarcerated on Alabama&#8217;s death row for more than two decades, after being convicted of a 1998 double murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said he shot and killed Jimmy Ellis, a store owner, and Elaine Thompson, an employee, while attempting to rob the establishment, court filings show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Emily Marks said Alabama&#8217;s nitrogen gas protocol violates inmates&#8217; rights under the Eighth Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment. It followed an appeals court ruling Monday that <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nitrogen-gas-executions-constitutional-jeffery-lee-federal-judge-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">reversed an earlier decision from Marks<\/a><\/span>, in which she found the method was constitutional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lee has shown by a preponderance of evidence that the Protocol constitutes cruel and unusual punishment,&#8221; Marks wrote Tuesday, referencing the appeals court&#8217;s Monday opinion.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing testimony from experts and lay witnesses during an April bench trial that was the first to weigh the constitutionality of Alabama&#8217;s nitrogen hypoxia protocol, the court found inmates executed by nitrogen gas likely experience &#8220;severe air hunger and corresponding emotional distress, anxiety, physiological stress, and physical discomfort&#8221; for at least one to three minutes before asphyxiation occurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is, in other words, a substantial risk of serious harm. The risk is not conjectural, speculative, or doubtful,&#8221; their opinion read. &#8220;Counting to 60 or 180 seconds is not a quick exercise, and constitutionally speaking, that timeframe is intolerable given the suffering that would take place under Alabama&#8217;s nitrogen protocol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marks&#8217; ruling marked a turning point for <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alabama-nitrogen-gas-execution-alan-eugene-miller-secrecy-corrections-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">capital punishment challenges<\/a><\/span>, which have been brought repeatedly in Alabama since it began carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia in 2024. It is notoriously difficult for inmates and their attorneys to meet the burden of proof required to substantiate them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/10\/9b6a8c17-3f87-4d7f-b57d-1a895d3137bb\/thumbnail\/620x465\/8a301b6b4f5a379d73ec8ea113ae3890\/ap26160065681236.jpg#\" alt=\"Nitrogen Gas Execution \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/10\/9b6a8c17-3f87-4d7f-b57d-1a895d3137bb\/thumbnail\/620x465\/8a301b6b4f5a379d73ec8ea113ae3890\/ap26160065681236.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/10\/9b6a8c17-3f87-4d7f-b57d-1a895d3137bb\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/3c5d27065f1bc941360cc740b27c2f87\/ap26160065681236.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Protesters gather outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, June 8, 2026, to oppose an upcoming execution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP Photo\/Kim Chandler<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To successfully argue an execution method violates the Eighth Amendment, the Supreme Court has required inmates demonstrate how one particular method poses &#8220;a substantial risk&#8221; of causing them severe pain. They are also required to offer a reasonable alternative method by which the state could execute them instead.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has proposed the state execute him using a firing squad as an alternative to nitrogen hypoxia, which Marks said &#8220;is feasible, readily implemented, and significantly reduces the substantial risk of serious harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Execution by firing squad is not technically authorized in Alabama, where death sentences can be carried out by lethal injection, nitrogen hypoxia or, under some circumtances, electrocution. But Marks said the state &#8220;failed to articulate a legitimate penological reason&#8221; for refusing to adopt it as an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall&#8217;s office plans to appeal Marks&#8217; decision, according to court filings. Despite concerns from critics about its nitrogen gas protocol, the state has maintained its denial that the method causes cruel or unusual suffering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lee would have been the ninth person in the U.S. executed by nitrogen hypoxia, and the eighth in Alabama. Louisiana <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/louisiana-resumes-nitrogen-hypoxia-execution\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">has also carried out one execution<\/a><\/span> this way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The constitutionality of Alabama&#8217;s nitrogen gas execution protocol will likely go before the U.S. Supreme Court next, which has never found any method of capital punishment to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p 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