Black’s attorneys had also asked Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, to grant him clemency, citing his disability, or to issue a reprieve so TDOC can find someone to deactivate his ICD. Lee said in a ...

Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, had argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart implant. By Emily Cochrane Reporting from Nashville. Tennessee executed a ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

Tennessee’s Catholic bishops issued a plea for mercy, calling for an immediate halt to the death penalty and its eventual abolition as the state prepares to execute Harold Wayne Nichols on Dec. 1.

Executions continue a cycle of violence and must end, a group of advocates for abolishing the death penalty said during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 7, on the steps of the Mississippi Supreme Court ...