The state executed Harold “Wayne” Nichols Thursday morning by lethal injection. Nichols, 64, was Tennessee’s third execution in seven months after a three-year hiatus in executions following a ...

Attorneys for Tony Carruthers, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning in Tennessee, have filed an emergency stay of execution, claiming corrections has been unable to set an IV line to ...

The person charged with administering the lethal drug failed to find a vein, and the execution was aborted, according to a person who witnessed the incident.

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...

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 ...