Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Citing authorities, News 2’s Memphis sister station WREG reported that Carruthers and an accomplice were convicted of kidnapping, ...

In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only woman on Tennessee's death row is taking legal action -- claiming the state's execution method could cause her to drown ...

Gary Wayne Sutton has been on death row since 1996 following his conviction in the 1992 killings of his close friend, Tommy Griffin, and Griffin’s sister, Connie Branam.

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A Tennessee death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student. Harold Wayne Nichols will be put to death via lethal injection.

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Update: The Tennessee Department of Corrections reports that death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has been executed. Nichols was pronounced dead at 10:39 a.m. “To the people ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...