Delay triggered a bit of legal chaos in Atlanta courtroom with a series of unanswered questions in Stacey Ian Humphreys’ case. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney speaks at an emergency hearing at ...

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — was called off after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution ...

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Tennessee’s failure to execute a man by lethal injection last month after no one could locate a suitable vein led to a rare unmasking: Not only was a practicing physician identified as a participant ...

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Delois Anderson was 43 years old. Marcellos Anderson was 21. Frederick Tucker was 17. For 32 years, their names have remained tied to one man inside Tennessee courtrooms, ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated attempts to find a vein for lethal injection failed. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee then granted Carruthers a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Tennessee death row inmate has at least one more year to live after the state “botched” his execution Thursday morning. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Gov. Bill Lee granted a one-year reprieve Thursday after Tennessee halted the planned execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers amid reported problems establishing IV ...

This Tennessee Department of Correction photo shows inmate Tony Carruthers. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP) WASHINGTON (CN) — In a last-minute emergency order, the Supreme Court on ...