Tennessee's lethal injection protocol adopted a year and a half ago appears to include reduced training in IV placement. That ...

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

The constitutional prohibition of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but ...

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

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee officials have been ordered to immediately disclose details on the drug used in the state’s lethal injection protocol after a Knox County judge rejected the state’s ...

An attempt to delay Tennessee's next execution over concerns about its new lethal injection protocol was shot down in late November, two weeks before Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be put to ...

The only woman on Tennessee’s death row is challenging the state’s execution protocol.

Idaho is preparing to resume executions with a firing squad by recruiting volunteer police officers to carry out the ...

In a case to be argued on Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court justices are being asked to give judges a standard for evaluating challenges to lethal injection protocols under the Eighth Amendment ban ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.