A man convicted of killing a couple during a home‑invasion robbery, and later confessing to three additional murders, was the ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will not intervene to prevent the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols, who is scheduled to die on Thursday by lethal injection ...

The execution of Frank Walls marked the highest number of state-sanctioned killings by a single state in more than 15 years.

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson dismissed Nichols' lawsuit on Nov. 26, ruling that the statute of limitations barred him ...

Harold Wayne Nichols confessed to killing Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old college student, as well as raping several other women ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his ...

On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

Florida upped its execution record to 19 after enforcing the death penalty via lethal injection on Frank Athen Walls, 58, at ...

Tennessee’s third execution of 2025 came with controversies over method, and Gov. Lee denying clemency despite moral and ...

This article contains mentions of violence and sexual abuse. Reader discretion is advised. After many attempts to avoid his ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...