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 ...

Alabama’s first scheduled execution of 2026 was halted on June 11. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lower court ruling to stand, blocking the state from using nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate ...

Other states that include lethal gas as an authorized method are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wyoming. In lethal gas executions, a condemned person is typically ...

Florida is on track this year to break its own record with 20 executions, leading all states by far in carrying out the death penalty. The state accounted for about 40% of all executions nationwide ...

Alabama plans to carry out its first execution of 2026 Thursday evening, putting Jeffrey Lee to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for a double homicide committed during a pawn shop robbery almost three ...

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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 ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt ...

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Attorneys with ACLU Tennessee are calling on Gov. Bill Lee to extend the execution reprieve for Tony Carruthers to all executions in the state after the botched lethal injection ...

Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and failed for over ...