A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and ...

State Rep. Jody Barrett (R-Dickson) is asking the Tennessee Department of Correction to be transparent about its lethal ...

Yet another Tennessee Republican lawmaker is pressuring Gov. Bill Lee’s administration for a full accounting of a botched ...

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

As Christa Pike waits to become first woman executed in Tennessee, here's a look at death penalty cases that ended controversially.

Eight death row inmates in Idaho will soon face a barrage of fatal bullets – after the state adopted the firing squad as its ...

Anthony Darrell Hines was sentenced to death after Katherine Jean Jenkins was raped, robbed and killed in Kingston Springs in ...

The Tennessee State Senate gaveled out of session in April, but two months later, nearly half the chamber has aligned against Tennessee executions. Weeks away from Tennessee’s next scheduled lethal ...

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...

The state’s gruesome failed execution in May has fueled Darrell Hines’ appeal for a reprieve from Gov. Bill Lee ...