Darrell Hines’s lawyers ask supreme court to intervene, arguing he could face fate similar to failed execution in May ...

In a hearing over the execution plans for Christa Gail Pike, lawyer Maria DeLiberato recounted the failed execution of Tony ...

On 13 August, three states are set to carry out executions by lethal injection. Ed Pilkington speaks to Kai Wright about a doctor at the center of a botched execution in Tennessee, whose identity was ...

It's been 16 years since three people were executed on the same day in the US, but later on Thursday, three men convicted of ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is declining to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution of death row inmate Darrell Hines, even as his attorneys claim he could suffer cruel and unusual punishment because of an ...

Tennessee is proceeding with the scheduled execution of death row prisoner Darrell Hines this Thursday, after Governor Bill Lee denied clemency. The decision follows legal challenges from Hines' ...

Tennessee's recent attempt to execute Tony Carruthers failed after the team could not establish an IV line. Gov. Bill Lee announced he will not order a review of the state's lethal injection protocol ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The planned execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Tony Carruthers was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The doctor involved in the botched execution of Memphian Tony Carruthers said he didn’t want him to suffer. Dr. Mark Walton Fowler told NBC that “every attempt was made to minimize ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

Execution teams nationwide report lasting psychological harm. Tennessee is preparing to risk it again, a law professor warns.

Dehydration was a primary factor in a botched execution that forced Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to call off and postpone a man’s death penalty for a year, a state senator told the Lookout. Republican ...