Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward ...

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Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office made the ask less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was “hurting so bad” while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, ...

The state executed Harold “Wayne” Nichols Thursday morning by lethal injection. Nichols, 64, was Tennessee’s third execution in seven months after a three-year hiatus in executions following a botched ...

Tennessee prison officials abruptly stopped the execution of a death row inmate Thursday morning after difficulties finding a vein for the lethal injection. The latest: Gov. Bill Lee gave inmate Tony ...

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...