Gov. Bill Lee refuses to review Tennessee's lethal injection protocol after a failed execution attempt.

As Christa Pike waits to become first woman executed in Tennessee, here's a look at death penalty cases that ended controversially.

Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison's execution ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for other death row inmates say it raises 'profound concerns.' ...

Regardless of anyone’s specific opinion on the moral and ethical grounds of capital punishment as a deterrent or an act of state barbarism, the fact of the matter is this: the actual, mechanical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tennessee has called off the execution of a death row inmate convicted of triple murder after his executioners failed to insert a ...

Lawyers for a Tennessee death row inmate say they are concerned the state may be planning to use expired lethal injection drugs at his execution on Thursday, amid growing concern across the country as ...

Florida on Friday became the third American state to suspend all executions, sharpening the debate about the morality of putting convicted murderers to death by lethal injection. Governor Jeb Bush ...

Singapore on Wednesday denied claims by a Malaysian rights group that it used a brutal “coup de grace” to finish off botched executions and ordered Yahoo and other sites to correct reports of the ...

Mr. Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project and the author of “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más ...