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 ...

David Joseph Pittman is scheduled for execution for the 1990 stabbing deaths of three family members in Mulberry. Pittman's attorneys have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay, citing an ...

Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for Frank Athen Walls, 58, scheduling his execution by lethal injection for December 18 at Florida State Prison. Walls's execution would be the 19th ...

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 default to lethal ...

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An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...

The Florida Supreme Court is being asked to step in and stop the clock on Ronald Heath’s upcoming execution, as his legal team levels explosive accusations of "reckless maladministration" against the ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to a death row inmate Thursday, sparing his life just hours before a scheduled execution by lethal injection. Stitt, a Republican, commuted 46-year-old ...

Richard Randolph died by lethal injection Thursday at 6:12 p.m. inside the Union Correctional Institution. More than three decades ago, he was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of the manager ...