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

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

Pike was convicted of the torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville back in 1995.

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

An attempt to delay Tennessee's next execution over concerns about its new lethal injection protocol was shot down in late November, two weeks before Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be put to ...

The only woman on Tennessee’s death row is challenging the state’s execution protocol.

In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee officials have been ordered to immediately disclose details on the drug used in the state’s lethal injection protocol after a Knox County judge rejected the state’s ...

In a case to be argued on Jan. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court justices are being asked to give judges a standard for evaluating challenges to lethal injection protocols under the Eighth Amendment ban ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee eyes a wave of executions, attorneys for 33 death row inmates on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down the state’s new three-drug combination for lethal ...

A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. The drug ...