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

A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

A judge has ruled that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions.

Christa Pike, A Tennessee woman on death row, sues state claiming lethal injection protocol would cause cruel death due to ...

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

TEGNA Inc., WBIR's parent company, was among the plaintiffs that filed suit via the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection Dec. 11 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Nichols, 64, was pronounced dead at 10:39 a.m. He was ...

The only woman on the state's death row bases challenge on the U.S. and Tennessee constitutions and her ‘unique medical ...

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

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday said he will not intervene to stop the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols. Nichols, 64, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday for ...