One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction had violated or otherwise ignored ...

Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four inmates, including Oscar Smith, who was within minutes of being executed in 2022, when Gov. Bill Lee issued a sudden ...

What does the Education Department do ... And what does it have to do with the Tennessee law? If Tennessee were to pass the bill and Gov. Bill Lee signed it into law, it would set up a challenge ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a 2002 double murder, has chosen a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing ...

With time running short to avoid a government shutdown at the end of next week, President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are pitching Republicans on a stopgap bill that would keep federal dollars ...

Corporate chiefs see “chaos,” and investors see red as the effect of President Trump’s shifting trade policy begins to weigh on board rooms and trading rooms.

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say ...

The patchwork of laws, rules and policies aims to encourage undocumented immigrants to interact with the city government — ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction has agreed to provide videophones, sign language interpreters and other accommodations to deaf people inside Tennessee prisons, settling a five-year-old lawsuit ...