Four executions have been set this year by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which includes the only woman on the state's death ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

Christa Pike, A Tennessee woman on death row, sues state claiming lethal injection protocol would cause cruel death due to ...

Christa Gail Pike argued in her filing that the new protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S.

TEGNA Inc., WBIR's parent company, was among the plaintiffs that filed suit via the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — 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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the execution of Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski to allow time for consideration of arguments that he had poor legal ...

Prison officials moved inmate Harold Wayne Nichols from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Nichols, 64, was placed on ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...