Amid execution, Ronald Heath and Melvin Trotter allege that the Florida Department of Corrections has violated its lethal ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Attorneys for death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are suing the State of Tennessee, accusing prison officials of violating the Public Records Act. The lawsuit, filed by ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...

A bill introduced in early 2026 would've authorized executions by suffocation via nitrogen gas.

A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions, after a coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press ...

A coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media's access ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...