A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for other death row inmates say it raises 'profound concerns.' ...

As Christa Pike waits to become first woman executed in Tennessee, here's a look at death penalty cases that ended controversially.

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

State Rep. Jody Barrett (R-Dickson) is asking the Tennessee Department of Correction to be transparent about its lethal ...

Yet another Tennessee Republican lawmaker is pressuring Gov. Bill Lee’s administration for a full accounting of a botched ...

A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and ...

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

The Tennessee State Senate gaveled out of session in April, but two months later, nearly half the chamber has aligned against Tennessee executions. Weeks away from Tennessee’s next scheduled lethal ...

Regardless of anyone’s specific opinion on the moral and ethical grounds of capital punishment as a deterrent or an act of state barbarism, the fact of the matter is this: the actual, mechanical ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

Singapore on Wednesday denied claims by a Malaysian rights group that it used a brutal “coup de grace” to finish off botched executions and ordered Yahoo and other sites to correct reports of the ...