Tennessee officials were forced to call off the execution of Tony Carruthers when Department of Correction medical staff were ...

Tennessee set out to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21, 2026, but he lived to tell about it. Carruthers, who was sentenced to ...

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In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual ...

A federal judge doesn’t plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man’s lawyers ...

Tony Carruthers was granted a one-year reprieve from death after his executioners failed to find a vein for lethal injection.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Defense attorneys filed a civil action lawsuit asking the court to rule lethal injection as unconstitutional ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in 1997.

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...

Most US executions are beset by procedural problems that could lead to insufficient anesthesia in executions. This hypothesis has been supported by findings of low postmortem blood thiopental levels ...