A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution ...

The complaint filed this week in Nashville argues witnesses should see the full execution process, from start to finish.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Anthony Todd Boyd should not be the eight man executed with the controversial method of nitrogen ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions.  Sotomayor — joined by Justices ...

The Supreme Court has never issued an execution stay in the past, but the court said in its opinion Monday that it had "sole power" to determine which court has jurisdiction to issue a stay. It had ...

Arron Lawson, who was found guilty of killing four people in 2017, is in court challenging his death sentence even as the State of Ohio has him scheduled for execution on Jan. 6, although, due to ...

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 ...

This story has been updated with information about a fourth execution date set by the Tennessee Supreme Court. The Tennessee ...

A man convicted of the 1998 rape and killing of his neighbor is set to be the 15th person executed in Florida this year.

A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim’s blood chose Friday to ...

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions Thursday, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” and ...