NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee will step up its number of executions next year. Four people are scheduled to be executed in 2026, which follows three executions this year. It comes after Governor ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection on Dec. 11. Nichols, 64, sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen Pulley in 1988, spoke ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knox County judge has ordered the state of Tennessee to release records related to the state’s lethal execution protocol. This order comes as a death row inmate is suing ...

Attorneys for Frank Walls cited prison drug logs and autopsy records to argue that his Dec. 18 execution could be “disastrous.” The execution chamber is seen at Florida State Prison in Starke. A ...

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 ...

Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...

Several news organizations, including Tennessean publisher Gannett, have sued two state corrections officials for greater access to the execution process, much of which is hidden from public view. 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 ...

After courts rejected arguments that he should not be executed because of his age, 72-year-old Samuel Smithers was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison in the 1996 ...

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