Prosecutors plan to seek the execution of a man accused of shooting and killing four members of a family in rural Tennessee, ...

Held in chains and wearing a black-and-white striped prison uniform, Austin Drummond spoke only to confirm his name, address, ...

Tennessee executed Byron Black, a 69-year-old man with an intellectual disability and a live heart implant, despite ...

A Tennessee bill that would authorize the use of the death penalty for convicted child rapists has passed its first legislative hurdle as the Senate Judiciary Committee has moved the bill ...

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a ...

Byron Black, a man convicted of murder 40 years ago, is scheduled to be executed on August 5, 2025, despite his documented ...

Tennessee hasn't executed a prisoner since Cecil Johnson was put to death by lethal injection Dec. 2, 2009, and it has executed only six people since 1960.

The execution of Byron Black raised questions for weeks over Tennessee’s death penalty law in connection with intellectual ...