With a December 3, 2026 execution date on the books, Blount County Circuit Court Judge David R. Duggan has ordered state-appointed experts to evaluate death-row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton, setting up a ...

Nine inmates have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection process.

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

A Tennessee death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student. Harold Wayne Nichols will be put to death via lethal injection.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee eyes a wave of executions, attorneys for 33 death row inmates on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down the state’s new three-drug combination for lethal ...

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