A Davidson County judge held what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the scheduled ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

This article contains graphic details about execution. Death sentences (execution) are painful, confusing, and sad decisions ...

Byron Black, who is on an implanted defibrillator, wants to make sure his heart does not restart during the execution, ...

Lawyers for four Tennessee death row inmates are asking a federal judge to allow them to choose a firing squad as an alternative to Tennessee's lethal injection or electric chair execution methods.

A Tennessee lawmaker has apologized for what he claims was an “exaggeration” while trying to convey support for a colleague looking to add death by firing squad as an execution method for ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Updated Story (8/15/19 8:31 p.m.): Stephen West, a Union County death row inmate convicted in an East Tennessee double-murder in the 1980s, has died after the State of ...

At the time, Smith had served more than 32 years on death row for the 1989 murder of his estranged wife and her two sons. Special report: Tennessee executed two inmates by lethal injection since 2018.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...