Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Georgia death row inmate Marcus Wellons was denied clemency Monday, a day before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection, NBC News reported. Wellons, who is charged for the rape and murder of a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...

LINCOLN — A curtain could no longer be pulled to obscure parts of a lethal injection execution under a bill advanced Thursday by the Nebraska Legislature. Be the first to know when news happens. Get ...