Preliminary inquiry has revealed that the sadhvi had a fever and a compounder was called to the ashram to administer an ...

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

The above shows the execution chamber in the Department of Corrections' Columbia prisons complex, as seen from the witness room. The firing squad chair (left) was added following a 2021 state law that ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, a death row inmate in Tennessee, has declined to select his preferred execution method for his scheduled December 11 death. That means that the state will proceed with lethal ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at a Knoxville job program for troubled teens. She is the last person in Tennessee sent to death row ...