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

The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) failed to carry out the scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers on May 21. State ...

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.' ...

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

Ron McAndrew had a front-row seat to Medina's torturous final moments in 1997 at the Florida state prison, a nightmare that ...

A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and correct any problems before the state attempts another execution. In a ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is standing by Tennessee’s protocol for lethal injection following the botched execution of Tony ...

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

Tennessee will keep its execution protocol unchanged after a failed attempt in May, Gov. Bill Lee said this week.

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 ...

(Reuters) - Alabama has reached a settlement with an inmate suffering from terminal cancer and severely compromised veins who survived an execution attempt last month when a lethal injection had to be ...

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 ...