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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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Legal challenges continue to surround a Tennessee death row inmate whose execution has been temporarily halted.Edmund Zagorski had been scheduled to be…
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Death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than Tennessee's lethal injection method.The Tennessean reports a federal lawsuit was…
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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…