Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

A lawsuit was filed Friday by nine death row inmates against the state of Tennessee regarding plans for their executions.

The suit claims the state’s lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

A group of nine men on Tennessee's death row filed suit in Davidson County Chancery Court on Friday, challenging the use of ...

(WKRN) — Men incarcerated on death row in Tennessee are suing the state over ... In their suit, the death row inmates say the state’s new lethal injection protocol, unveiled in January ...

on March 3 the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered the execution of four death row inmates beginning in May. However, according to the suit, multiple studies show that the use of pentobarbital in ...

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A change to lethal injections for people on death row sparked up a lawsuit. Inmates and lawyers ...