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

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at a Knoxville job program ...

A Tennessee death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student. Harold Wayne Nichols will be put to death via lethal injection.

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the first execution ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was set to die by lethal injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment ...

Another board member, Wayne Bennett, was the sheriff in Glynn County, where the trial was moved because of pretrial publicity. Humphreys’ lawyers say Bennett oversaw security for the jurors and ...