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 ...

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson dismissed Nichols' lawsuit on Nov. 26, ruling that the statute of limitations barred him from challenging his method of execution. His attorneys at the Federal ...

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

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

Stacey Humphreys' execution in Georgia is halted as parole board suspends both the lethal injection and clemency hearing.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

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

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

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee will step up its number of executions next year. Four people are scheduled to be executed ...

If he avoids execution by December 24, the state would be required to pursue a fresh warrant. Humphreys was found guilty of ...

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, ...