News organizations sued Tennessee prison officials over execution access, arguing that state protocols unconstitutionally ...

A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution ...

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black was pronounced dead. The comments by ...

Death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be executed on December 11, but must choose his method of execution by ...

Federal attorneys for Harold Wayne Nichols, the only death row inmate from the Chattanooga area, have filed a lawsuit against ...

Represented by RCFP attorneys, a news media coalition argues that Tennessee’s restrictions on press access to executions are ...

Harold Nichols has sued to review the state's lethal injection records ahead of his execution Dec. 11 and after issues with ...

Several news organizations, including Tennessean publisher Gannett, have sued two state corrections officials for greater ...

Christa Pike is the only woman on death row. Gary Wayne Sutton and supporters maintain he is innocent. Tony Carruthers represented himself at trial.

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black ...