As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of "reckless maladministration" of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A date for a motion hearing has been set as attorneys for the only woman on Tennessee’s death challenge the constitutionality of the state’s lethal injection process. Last ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

In a move that would be certain to spur more litigation over the state's already embattled death penalty, Florida corrections officials appear to be planning what could be a dramatic change to the ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State lawyers want an entire appeals court to review Ohio’s new and twice-rejected lethal injection process as the state struggles to resume executions. The attorney general’s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A date for a motion hearing has been set as attorneys for the only woman on Tennessee's death challenge ...