A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to avoid a prolonged death.

Byron Black, 68, was put on death row in 1989 after he murdered his girlfriend, Angela Clay, and her daughters Latoya and ...

Florida’s notorious youth prison, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, was so brutal that the state is paying millions of dollars in reparations to aging men for their suffering there. And on Tuesday ...

One of Tennessee’s longest serving death row inmates will be allowed to deactivate a defibrillator implanted in his chest before he’s executed next month.

Three members of the arson and explosives unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were killed Friday in a blast ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad.

The search for victims of deadly flooding in Texas Hill Country is headed into its third week as officials try to pin down ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A temporary injunction for a Tennessee death row inmate’s request to turn off his defibrillator ...

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart device before his scheduled August ...

Nature While lethal injection is still the default method of execution, the law will allow these other methods if the state is unable to effectively acquire the chemicals used for lethal injections.