Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The state of Tennessee has filed orders to reset execution dates for death row inmates Byron Black, Oscar Smith, Harold Nichols, and Donald Middlebrooks. The last ...

The suit claims the state’s lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from locally elected district attorneys to the appointed state attorney general after a ...