NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Thursday morning, another death row execution was carried out by the State. Harold Wayne Nichols was the third man to be executed in Tennessee in 2025. Nichols pleaded guilty ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knox County judge has ordered the state of Tennessee to release records related to the state’s lethal execution protocol. This order comes as a death row inmate is suing ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knox County judge has ordered the state of Tennessee to release records related to the state’s execution protocol. This order comes as a death row inmate is suing the state ...

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...

Attorneys for Frank Walls cited prison drug logs and autopsy records to argue that his Dec. 18 execution could be “disastrous.” The execution chamber is seen at Florida State Prison in Starke. A ...

ATLANTA — Georgia has scheduled the execution of Stacey Ian Humphreys for Dec. 17, nearly 22 years after he was convicted of killing two real estate agents in a model home in West Cobb. The execution ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...

Several news organizations, including Tennessean publisher Gannett, have sued two state corrections officials for greater access to the execution process, much of which is hidden from public view. The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Attorneys for death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are suing the Tennessee Department of Correction, claiming the agency is refusing to release records about the state’s ...

Boyd was convicted of the grisly killing of Gregory Huguley over a $200 cocaine debt. Prosecutors said Boyd taped Huguley’s feet together before another man doused him with gasoline and set him on ...

Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for the kidnapping and killing of a man that ended in flames over 30 ...