Anthony Darrell Hines was sentenced to death after Katherine Jean Jenkins was raped, robbed and killed in Kingston Springs in ...

An inmate’s legal team asked Gov. Bill Lee to delay his execution until the Tennessee Department of Correction can carry out ...

Tennessee officials were forced to call off the execution of Tony Carruthers when Department of Correction medical staff were unable to find a vein in order to administer the lethal injection.

A Tennessee attorney representing the state’s only female death row inmate has raised fresh concerns following last week’s ...

For over an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and the ...

The Supreme Court said Alabama can't execute inmate Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas, a controversial method a lower court said is likely unconstitutional.

A federal appeals court says Alabama's use of nitrogen gas for executions needs more study to see if it violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. States have various ...