Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve that revealed ...

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.

Oscar Franklin Smith is set to be executed by lethal injection for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife, 35-year-old Judith ...

Tennessee hasn't executed an inmate on death row since early 2020, but now the new drug meant to restart the death penalty is ...

Tennessee is set to execute the first inmate under its new death penalty protocol next week, and some critics argue the new ...

Fifty-one people impacted by violent crime, including murder victims' family members, signed onto a letter to Gov. Bill Lee.

Before Rogers’ death, the most recent U.S. execution was in Florida and took place May 1, when Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, died ...

Seventeen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 11 other people are scheduled to be put ...

Benjamin Ritchie became the second person executed in Indiana in 15 years on Tuesday as, more than two decades after killing ...

Tennessee has plenty of prison space to incarcerate the “worst of the worst,” saving Tennesseans a whole heap of money in ...

Tennessee’s main method of execution is lethal injection, but some death row inmates argue the firing squad may be more ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee is set to execute the first inmate under its new death penalty protocol next week, and some critics argue the new protocol is worse than before.