In a letter to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, members of the senate expressed serious concerns regarding a failed execution of ...

A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and ...

The senators said they support the death penalty but are concerned about what they called the state’s failure to carry out a ...

The constitutional prohibition of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but ...

It is the sixth failed lethal-injection execution in less than 10 years.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 ...

Oklahoma can move forward with its controversial lethal-injection drug, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Justice Samuel Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said prisoners who challenged the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - A Memphis man was not executed on Thursday morning after staff had to call off the procedure. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to die by lethal injection at Riverbend ...

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Tennessee officials have 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 an ...