Harold Wayne Nichols is to be executed Dec. 11. He's asked Gov. Bill Lee to commute his sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

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Joshua Rocha was sentenced to death by lethal injection on Monday after he was found guilty of murdering North Police Officer ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

South Carolina has executed seven people since resuming capital punishment last year after a 13-year hiatus caused by shortages of lethal injection drugs. The state has relied on firing squads and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was “hurting so bad” while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a ...

A lethal injection did not set off an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shock in the Tennessee man who received his death penalty last week, his lawyers said. (AP) Over 11,000 bottles of ...

“Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade issued an apology after suggesting “involuntary lethal injection” as a solution for mentally ill homeless people while live on air. During a brief appearance on ...

Brian Kilmeade, the co-host of Fox & Friends, delivered an apology on the show after saying that homeless and mentally ill criminals should be given lethal injections. During their discussion, Jones ...