Pike was convicted of the torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville back in 1995.

In a case to be argued on Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court justices are being asked to give judges a standard for evaluating challenges to lethal injection protocols under the Eighth Amendment ban ...

An attempt to delay Tennessee's next execution over concerns about its new lethal injection protocol was shot down in late November, two weeks before Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be put to ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee officials have been ordered to immediately disclose details on the drug used in the state’s lethal injection protocol after a Knox County judge rejected the state’s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward ...

Tennessee officials have called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and failed for over an ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee eyes a wave of executions, attorneys for 33 death row inmates on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down the state’s new three-drug combination for lethal ...

A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. The drug ...

TALLAHASSEE – Raising issues about chronic health problems and Florida’s lethal-injection process, attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls on Wednesday filed an emergency motion asking a federal ...