The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die. Opponents and supporters of capital ...

Tennessee can use controversial drugs to execute inmates on death row despite concerns from defense attorneys and experts that doing so is "akin to burning someone alive," a Nashville judge ruled ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is set to execute Tony Carruthers on Thursday, with his attorneys raising concerns about the validity of the state's lethal injection drugs and the fairness of his ...

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