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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — On the anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling reinstating the US death penalty, faith leaders, those ...

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

Executioners rarely botch state-sponsored killings. But when they do, it leaves a mark for all of history. The Buffalo News wrote in 1890 about the first-ever use of the electric chair: "After an ...