Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

Dusty Ray Spencer is scheduled for execution on June 25 for the 1992 murder of his wife, Karen Spencer. The murder occurred after a history of domestic violence, including a prior attack with a steam ...

Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried and failed for over ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate for the 2000 stabbing deaths of a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter. Richard Knight, 47, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 21, for the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The planned execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Tony Carruthers was ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated attempts to find a vein for lethal injection failed. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee then granted Carruthers a ...

This Tennessee Department of Correction photo shows inmate Tony Carruthers. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP) WASHINGTON (CN) — In a last-minute emergency order, the Supreme Court on ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Death row inmate Tony Carruthers’ scheduled execution is set for May 21. He’s spent more than 30 years on death row, and while he’s fighting for a stay of execution to test evidence.

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The state of Texas is set to move forward with the execution of James Garfield Broadnax on Thursday, nearly two decades after a double murder unfolded in North Texas. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the ...