A death row inmate’s attorneys are asking the court to reverse a lower court’s decision that declined to decide eligibility ...

A death row inmate set to be executed later this year has asked the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling and ...

Death row prisoner Byron Black is asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to step in and delay his scheduled Aug. 5 execution.

Tennessee currently has 45 men and one woman on death row. The nine people who have filed the lawsuit are: Oscar Smith, who is scheduled to be executed on May 22, Byron Black, who is scheduled to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The state of Tennessee has filed orders to reset execution dates for death row inmates Byron Black, Oscar Smith, Harold Nichols, and Donald Middlebrooks. The last ...

A Tennessee judge put a death row inmate's lawsuit of mistreatment by prison officials on hold. The stay of 90 days is to allow the inmate to exhaust his administrative appeals.

On August 9, 2018, Steven Hale stood outside a Tennessee prison as a convicted murderer inside awaited a lethal dose of a three-drug cocktail. It was the first execution of a death row inmate in ...

Tennessee inmate Oscar Smith was executed by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 murders of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett.

This photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows death row inmate Henry Hodges. Hodges cut off his own penis in a prison cell after slitting his wrists and asking to be put on ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Monday, a death row inmate filed an appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court asking them to overturn a lower court’s decision declining to decide if he’s ...

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...