Update (5:50 p.m.): Edmund Zagorski's attorney, Kelley Henry, tells the Scene that Tennessee Department of Correction officials have said it's too late for Zagorski to choose the electric chair, and ...

Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol adopted a year-and-a-half ago appears to include reduced training in IV placement. That ...

A Fox News host has apologized after proposing using a lethal injection for homeless people with mental health issues. Speaking on Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade apologized for comments he made during ...

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 ...

On August 22, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed in an unprovoked attack on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, as she traveled home from her job at a pizza ...

Full coverage of the death penalty and capital punishment in the United States and breaking news about prison inmate ...

On March 25th, the Public Policy Program hosted a conversation with Corinna Barrett Lain, graduate of the W&M class of 1992 and author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...