An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

A Davidson County judge is holding what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hearing over how the state will handle the ...

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...

Byron Black, who is on an implanted defibrillator, wants to make sure his heart does not restart during the execution, ...

Florida is set to execute its eighth inmate in 2025. Since 1939, five people from Treasure Coast have been executed. See how many remain on death row.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied Bryon Black's request to have a hearing on whether he is incompetent for capital punishment, paving the way for his execution on Aug. 5.

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Lawyers ask TN Supreme Court to weigh case of disabled death row inmate set for execution Byron Black has been on death row since 1989 for a Nashville triple murder.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (AP) — A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling ...