The Supreme Court said Alabama can't execute inmate Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas, a controversial method a lower court said ...

Discover how a writ of execution enforces judgments, the legal process involved, and which assets are protected under state ...

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Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...

Alabama is likely taking their fight to defend the state’s controversial nitrogen gas execution method to the U.S. Supreme Court after an appellate court late Wednesday agreed that it was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Davidson County chancellor has ordered state prison officials to allow official witnesses to see more of the process when an inmate is put to death. Several media groups including ...

Carruthers’ court case was fraught with problems. A second execution attempt would be the kind of cruelty no decent society should countenance ...

Death penalty cases often take years before they go to trial in Arizona. After a guilty verdict, the appeals and execution process can take decades.