The protocol that took effect in 2025 sheds new light on Tony Carruthers’ botched execution, when Dr. Mark Fowler spent ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

TORONTO — The U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday it is taking actions to strengthen the federal ‌death penalty, including firing squads and readopting the ⁠lethal injection protocol. Acting ...

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 ...

In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

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