Crafty death-row lawyers and bleeding-heart judges get the blame, but the public might just as well point the finger at state government itself for Tennessee's failure to carry out death sentences.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...

A ruling in the Supreme Court of Tennessee has cleared the way for an elderly death row inmate with a severe intellectual disability to be executed next week, despite confusion over how officials will ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State lawyers want an entire appeals court to review Ohio’s new and twice-rejected lethal injection process as the state struggles to resume executions. The attorney general’s ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, a death row inmate in Tennessee, has declined to select his preferred execution method for his scheduled December 11 death. That means that the state will proceed with lethal ...

A federal judge declined to stop Stephen Stanko’s execution, scheduled for Friday evening. The judge limited arguments to lethal injection, the method Stanko chose over firing squad. Stanko’s lawyers ...

BOISE – Idaho’s prison system has nearly completed execution chamber upgrades to carry out the death penalty by firing squad ...

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...

The Department of Justice's report is the latest development in the administration’s long campaign to execute as many people as possible.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...