Christa Pike is scheduled to be executed on September 30.

In a hearing over the execution plans for Christa Gail Pike, lawyer Maria DeLiberato recounted the failed execution of Tony ...

Tennessee's recent attempt to execute Tony Carruthers failed after the team could not establish an IV line. Gov. Bill Lee announced he will not order a review of the state's lethal injection protocol ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is declining to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution of death row inmate Darrell Hines, even as his attorneys claim he could suffer cruel and unusual punishment because of an ...

Gov. Bill Lee has said the state’s execution protocol remains in place and should not affect future executions.

Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) delayed the execution of Tony Carruthers by one year after the inmate experienced a “botched” execution on Thursday. Executioners failed to find a vein to insert the mandatory ...

(CNN) — An Alabama death row inmate whose execution went wrong is asking that his death sentence be vacated. The attempted execution was "botched and bloody," as the inmate's lawyer put it, and left ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

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The doctor in Tennessee’s recent botched execution confirmed Friday that he will oversee next month’s planned execution of ...