NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — 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 ...

When a Tennessee death row inmate faces execution, picking a last meal is one of the few remaining moments of free will. As the mechanics and logisitics of executions have continued to evolve in ...

Oscar Franklin Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of his estranged wife, Judith Robirds Smith, and her sons Chad Burnett and Jason Burnett in Nashville in 1989.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

A ruling in the Supreme Court of Tennessee has cleared the way for an elderly death row inmate with a severe intellectual disability to be executed next week, despite confusion over how officials will ...

A Knox County inmate has been charged in connection with the death of his cellmate, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation ...

In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — 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 ...

An inmate was taken to the hospital after an altercation at the Northwest Correctional Complex, the Tennessee Department of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...