A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing his wife more than three decades ago is making a final effort to stop his ...

Tennessee halted Tony Carruthers’ execution after officials failed to set a required backup IV line. Gov. Bill Lee granted a one-year reprieve as his lawyer described a painful scene.

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of his attorneys said.

(RNS) — At the heart of Alabama’s latest death penalty controversy is Jeffery Lee, who became a Christian mentor to other ...

The only woman on Tennessee’s death row is challenging the state’s execution protocol.

The plan includes transporting inmates from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute in ...

If three executions move forward in Arizona, Tennessee and Florida, the U.S. will see the deadliest week for the death ...

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

Tennessee called off the planned execution of Tony Carruthers on Thursday, his attorney said.

A death row prisoner who was set to be executed this week has been spared — for now. Jeffrey Lee, 49, has been incarcerated in the state of Alabama for almost three decades and was supposed to receive ...

Lawyers for the only woman on death row in Tennessee said the state is "not equipped" for her execution. He, and his wife ...

The Kansas death chamber is a small room with one-way windows so witnesses and the executioner can see in but the inmate ...