Darrell Hines’s lawyers ask supreme court to intervene, arguing he could face fate similar to failed execution in May ...

Christa Pike is scheduled to be executed on September 30.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is declining to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution of death row inmate Darrell Hines, even as his attorneys claim he could suffer cruel and unusual punishment because of an ...

Tennessee is proceeding with the scheduled execution of death row prisoner Darrell Hines this Thursday, after Governor Bill Lee denied clemency. The decision follows legal challenges from Hines' ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

Execution teams nationwide report lasting psychological harm. Tennessee is preparing to risk it again, a law professor warns.

Dehydration was a primary factor in a botched execution that forced Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to call off and postpone a man’s death penalty for a year, a state senator told the Lookout. Republican ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The doctor involved in the botched execution of Memphian Tony Carruthers said he didn’t want him to suffer. Dr. Mark Walton Fowler told NBC that “every attempt was made to minimize ...

Tennessee's recent attempt to execute Tony Carruthers failed after the team could not establish an IV line. Gov. Bill Lee announced he will not order a review of the state's lethal injection protocol ...

Gov. Bill Lee has said the state’s execution protocol remains in place and should not affect future executions.

On Wednesday afternoon in Arizona state prison, death row prisoner Joseph Wood was administered a lethal injection. He survived for 1 hour and 58 minutes before dying. Onlookers described Wood as ...