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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated photo released by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Harold Nichols in Tennessee. (Tennessee ...

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 ...

Crafty death-row lawyers and bleeding-heart judges get the blame, but the public might just as well point the finger at state government itself for Tennessee's failure to carry out death sentences.

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

Tennessee's corrections chief said Wednesday that the department expects to unveil a new process for executing inmates by the end of the year, signaling a possible end to a yearslong pause due to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 ...

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...

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 default to lethal ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, a death row inmate in Tennessee, has declined to select his preferred execution method for his scheduled December 11 death. That means that the state will proceed with lethal ...

WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer tightened its policies Friday regarding the use of drugs in lethal injections, a move experts said would make it harder for states to carry out executions ...

UPDATE WEDNESDAY: A Knox County chancellor said Wednesday he'll review - behind closed doors - information sought by a death row inmate about the state's lethal injection drug. By agreement, the state ...