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

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

TEGNA Inc., WBIR's parent company, was among the plaintiffs that filed suit via the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the ...

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

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

Christa Gail Pike argued in her filing that the new protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S.

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 ...

Death penalty opponents in Tennessee got a jump on this year’s abolition efforts by urging the state to stop all executions in 2026.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at a Knoxville job program ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State ...