death row

Tennessee is scheduled to resume executions this month, and some victims’ rights advocates are arguing there are better ways to spend state money than administering capital punishment.

Attorneys for a Kentucky man that’s spent four decades on death row for murder say a recent DNA test is proof he wasn’t the killer.

A death row inmate has become the sixth man in Tennessee in about two years to choose to die by the electric chair instead of lethal injection. Tennessee…

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has barred the lethal injections that were scheduled to commence on Monday, citing the likelihood of "extreme pain and suffering." A legal conflict is likely.

An attorney says her team has lost “critical time” in representing a Tennessee death row inmate slated for execution in June due to the new coronavirus…

A condemned Tennessee inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his Thursday execution and consider his claims that the electric chair is…

Four Tennessee death row inmates are asking a federal court to allow them to have a firing squad used as an execution method.The lawsuit was filed Friday,…

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected two last-ditch efforts to save the life of Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski, apparently clearing the way for his…

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the state of Tennessee not to proceed with plans to execute Edmund Zagorski by lethal injection after it refused his…

Legal challenges continue to surround a Tennessee death row inmate whose execution has been temporarily halted.Edmund Zagorski had been scheduled to be…