If the ruling stands, dozens or hundreds of people should have already been released from prison in Tennessee, according to ...

TDOC invites Tennesseans to apply for its Citizens' Correctional Academy, which offers insights into the correctional system.

Lawyers for Byron Black, who is scheduled to be put to death this month, say his defibrillator may be unnecessarily triggered ...

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution on Tuesday that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest. Gov. Bill Lee declined ...

Authorities have not disclosed any motive in the killings or why the baby was abandoned a county away from where the bodies ...

Tennessee Inmate Executed Despite Ethical Health Concerns Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, had argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart implant.

The state of Tennessee on Aug. 5 executed death row inmate Byron Black despite concerns from medical experts that his implanted heart device might repeatedly shock him.

Officials in a rural Tennessee town approved turning a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a ...

(CNN) — The suspect in the killings of four relatives of a baby found abandoned last week has been arrested after a weeklong ...

A Tennessee man convicted in the 1988 murders of his girlfriend and her two young daughters was executed Tuesday despite a legal dispute over whether his heart device ...

State attorneys in Tennessee say a judge’s order to take a death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution to deactivate his heart-regulating device would cause “chaos.”.