Oklahoma can move forward with its controversial lethal-injection drug, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Justice Samuel Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said prisoners who challenged the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The planned execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Tony Carruthers was ...

A special judge — acting as a clerk and master — has rejected most of Christa Gail Pike's challenges to the way she is to be put to death on Sept. 30. The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried ...

A judge ruled against death row inmate Christa Pike's challenge to lethal injection, finding she failed to prove it would cause excessive suffering.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carruthers, who was sentenced to death for a 1994 triple murder, survived his date ...