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Marks first move to shore up execution protocol
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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,…
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After four decades with only six executions, Tennessee is on schedule to execute three inmates this year.Edmund Zagorski died in the electric chair…
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An attorney is seeking a stay in his client's execution next week amid the ongoing appeal of a judge's decision to uphold Tennessee's new lethal injection…
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A county judge ruled the state's use of the lethal injection was constitutional, but further appeals are all but certain.
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Allen Ault admits to being a murderer.But Ault isn’t behind bars, nor was he tried for his “crimes”; he’s currently dean of Criminal Justice Studies at…
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When things go wrong during an execution, the people responsible for carrying it out experience stressful, chaotic scenes. But even when the process goes right, it can take a lasting toll.
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The Tennessee Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal by two death row inmates who claim changes to the state's lethal injection procedure are…