Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 ...

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

Tennessee is moving to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, though the 50-year-old death row inmate convicted of torturing and killing a romantic rival at 18 argues she's ...

Prison oversight bills would pilot body-worn cameras for guards, create a Family Advisory Board and permit prisons to destroy ...

In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several witnesses. Byron Black was put ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...