In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State law permits the death penalty only in aggravated murder cases and mandates that prosecutors file a formal notice before the ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for Frank Athen Walls, 58, scheduling his execution by lethal injection for December 18 at Florida State Prison. Walls's execution would be the 19th ...

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 ...