The state’s new lethal injection protocol, a 44-page document, is half the length of the previous one.It contains one page on the use of lethal injection chemicals, and does not include details ...

A convict on Death Row has been executed after being denied a last-minute reprieve. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, was killed by lethal injection at around 6am UK time on Tuesday, having spent more than ...

For the first time in five years, a man is about to be executed in Tennessee. 75-year-old Oscar Franklin Smith will be given a lethal injection at 10 a.m. Thursday.

In early April, Smith and death row inmate Byron Black asked Gov. Bill Lee for a reprieve on death row executions because of the state's lethal injection method.

Why states are turning to execution methods like firing squads and nitrogen gas 04:25. Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his ...