NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Lethal injections are set to resume following a review after the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) completed its lethal injection protocol. In May 2022, the lethal ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction has created a new lethal injection protocol, clearing the way for the state to schedule executions again. Gov. Bill Lee called off all executions indefinitely in ...

Tennessee has not carried out an execution for more than five years — partly by choice, and partly by necessity. One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction ...

Today Oklahoma carried out the first of 25 executions planned over the next two years. A recent ruling by a federal judge paved the way for these executions. The court said the state's lethal ...

Tennessee plans resume executions this year using pentobarbital, but where it will source the drug and how much it will cost taxpayers remains a secret. The state currently has 45 men and one woman on ...

The U.S. Department of Justice, in one of outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland's final acts, rescinded the federal government's lethal injection protocol — the same one used by Arizona — because ...

South Carolina’s attempts to resume executions continue as state legislation to enact a shield law to hide the identities of pharmaceutical companies that provide drugs for lethal injection moves from ...

Execution by lethal injection is a mess. It is the least reliable of any method of execution ever used in this country, and 2022 brought news of a series of botched lethal injections. A report by the ...

A federal lawsuit contains sworn testimony from the very people charged with carrying out the state’s ultimate punishment. Those people include: the “Drug Procurer,” “Pharmacist,” and “Executioner." ...

Death row inmates failed to convince a federal judge that Oklahoma's lethal injection method is cruel and unusual punishment. It will resume executions at a pace of about one a month through 2024.