Gov. Bill Lee has said the state’s execution protocol remains in place and should not affect future executions.

Execution teams nationwide report lasting psychological harm. Tennessee is preparing to risk it again, a law professor warns.

Dehydration was a primary factor in a botched execution that forced Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to call off and postpone a man’s death penalty for a year, a state senator told the Lookout. Republican ...

Gov. Bill Lee refuses to review Tennessee's lethal injection protocol after a failed execution attempt.

A duo of Tennessee doctors is asking Gov. Bill Lee to stop future executions until the state can make drastic improvements to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The planned execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Tony Carruthers was ...

Carruthers, according to his sister, suffered a stroke after the botched execution, is partially paralyzed on his right side and cognitively declined.

On Wednesday afternoon in Arizona state prison, death row prisoner Joseph Wood was administered a lethal injection. He survived for 1 hour and 58 minutes before dying. Onlookers described Wood as ...

Medical professionals attempted to set a backup IV line for more than an hour in Tony Carruthers before the execution was called off.

Two Florida inmates, James Duckett and Dominick Occhicone, are scheduled for a double execution on July 28. Attorneys have ...

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

Singapore on Wednesday denied claims by a Malaysian rights group that it used a brutal “coup de grace” to finish off botched executions and ordered Yahoo and other sites to correct reports of the ...