Four executions have been set this year by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which includes the only woman on the state's death row.

In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, ...

Christa Gail Pike argued in her filing that the new protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S. and Tennessee constitutions.

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Karen Pulley, 20, was brutally beaten and raped in the home she shared with two other women on Sept. 30, 1988. During a three month period spanning the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989, Nichols raped ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

Prison officials moved inmate Harold Wayne Nichols from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Nichols, 64, was placed on ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A woman on Tennessee's death row is fighting for her life in court, claiming the state's execution method could cause her to drown in her own blood. Christa Pike is suing the ...

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