Though state officials have resisted new accountability measures for CoreCivic, the legislation has received bipartisan ...

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

The execution of Edward Thomas James, who raped and killed an 8-year-old girl and killed her grandmother in 1993, has been ...

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

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.

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

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

If all executions scheduled through March 20 take place, nine people will have been executed in the first three months of the ...