Four executions have been set this year by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which includes the only woman on the state's death ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...

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 ...

Nichols' execution is scheduled for Dec. 11. He is hoping to get records related to lethal injection in Tennessee. Harold Wayne Nichols, who has two weeks to decide how the state will kill him, is ...

The litigation — especially U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson’s cynical and macabre opinion published November 26 — concerning Harold Nichols’s scheduled execution on December 11 in Tennessee ...

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at a Knoxville job program ...

Christa Gail Pike argued in her filing that the new protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S.

The only woman on Tennessee's death row is taking legal action -- claiming the state's execution method could cause her to ...