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

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

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

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection Dec. 11 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...

A look at the process of Harold Nichol's execution and why his lawyer fought to give his client information about drugs used. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The State of Tennessee held its third execution ...

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 Gov. Bill Lee has refused to release records that could illuminate his decision to abruptly halt the execution of Oscar Smith last month. Lee has said the execution drugs for Smith weren't ...

The litigation — especially U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson’s cynical and macabre opinion published November 26 — concerning Harold Nichols’s scheduled execution on December 11 in Tennessee ...