Nichols was sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen Pulley. His attorneys filed a clemency ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the ...
Oscar Franklin Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of his estranged wife, Judith Robirds Smith, and her sons Chad Burnett and Jason Burnett in Nashville in 1989. Prison ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...