Tony Carruthers returned to death row last week after surviving the state’s failed attempt to execute him by lethal injection. After the public failure by the Tennessee Department of Correction, ...

The person charged with administering the lethal drug failed to find a vein, and the execution was aborted, according to a ...

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 ...

Tennessee officials halted the planned execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday after prison staff spent ...

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Read full article: Memorial Day in Houston: Tracking rain for a select few not all. A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.