The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four inmates, including Oscar Smith, who was within minutes of being ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has ordered four men to be executed before the end of this year, including a Chattanoogan dubbed ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn't been used in ...

A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be postponed ... lethal injection or the electric chair. Sigmon’s lawyers said he ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be ... lethal injection or the electric chair.

When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won’t be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life.

Recently, there has been a series of malfunctions that demonstrate the cruelty of using the electric chair. This July during the execution of Allen Lee Davis, his blood began to seep through his shirt ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be postponed and prison officials release more information about ...