Two weeks ago, Blue Origin, the space pioneer established and run by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, was on cloud nine. NASA had just announced that, as part of its Project Artemis program to return ...

Barely 48 hours before he was scheduled to die, a federal court has ruled that Alabama may execute Jeffrey Lee by any method except for nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas execution method involves the ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

A death row inmate convicted in the 2003 killing of his common-law wife is scheduled to be executed in August after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date. Carlos Cuesta ...

The chief executive of Blue Origin, whose large New Glenn rocket exploded spectacularly less than a week ago at the company’s launch site in Florida, vowed Monday night that the company would launch ...

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Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

A powerful New Glenn rocket owned by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin exploded in a spectacular fireball Thursday, sending billowing clouds of fire, smoke and flaming debris into the night sky in a tremendous ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has exploded on its launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station while the company was conducting ground tests for an upcoming launch. The company explained that it ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday night. No injuries were reported, and officials said the public was not at risk. Blue Origin warned in a ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...