Chadwick "Khalil" Willacy was executed by the State of Florida for a 1990 murder, despite legal challenges alleging the state ...

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Chadwick Willacy is set to be executed in Florida for a 1990 murder, but attorneys question the state's lethal injection ...

BOISE – Idaho’s prison system has nearly completed execution chamber upgrades to carry out the death penalty by firing squad ...

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.

A ruling in the Supreme Court of Tennessee has cleared the way for an elderly death row inmate with a severe intellectual disability to be executed next week, despite confusion over how officials will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...

A federal judge declined to stop Stephen Stanko’s execution, scheduled for Friday evening. The judge limited arguments to lethal injection, the method Stanko chose over firing squad. Stanko’s lawyers ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State lawyers want an entire appeals court to review Ohio’s new and twice-rejected lethal injection process as the state struggles to resume executions. The attorney general’s ...

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 ...