Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

After 15 years without a single firing squad execution in the US, Mikal Mahdi is set to become the second in two months.

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

There is a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to pause executions until a judge reviews the state's new lethal injection ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row men Oscar Smith and Byron Black are calling on Governor Bill Lee to issue a temporary halt ...

Darren Harris posed as a customer in Gary Lewis’s vinyl store before waiting until his back was turned and stabbing him in ...

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