Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his chest would cause him pain.

Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, have argued that an execution may be more painful because of his ...

Corinna Barrett Lain, author of “Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection,” is related to several ...

With two days until the scheduled execution of Byron Black, convicted of murdering a Nashville mother and her two children, ...

A Nashville jury convicted Byron Black and sentenced him to death in 1989. Now more than 35 years later, he is set to be ...

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 ...

Tennessee Supreme Court allows execution of inmate with heart device, as legal and ethical issues are considered.

Governor Lee announced Monday evening, “The courts have universally determined that it is lawful to carry out the jury’s ...

What Florida has done is turn decades of precedent in death penalty jurisprudence on its head. In that jurisprudence, people ...

The governor said Indiana no longer has any usable lethal injection drugs. Instead of purchasing more — and risking expiration, given the drug’s 90-day shelf life — his office plans to order new ...

Florida has executed more inmates this year than any other state and is well on track to outpace Texas for the first time ...

Florida has executed Edward Zakrzewski for the 1994 murders of his wife and two children. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a ...