Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for twenty five different crimes, although murder was not one of them. The first death sentence ...

Other notable death in April include basketball Hall of Famer Dick Barnett, “Dennis the Menace” star Jay North, former ...

Both the Knicks and TSU announced the death of the former guard on Sunday ... player and as a member of his college teams at Tennessee A&I, the first HBCU to win a national championship in ...

The first batter she faced was Ruth ... baseball and went to work for her father’s optical business in Tennessee. But other women continued to play on barnstorming teams, including Negro ...

Twenty-five years have passed since Mary Agnes Bowles was abducted from a Tulsa mall in her car, driven to a remote area and shot four to six ...

May the court keep quiet while the death penalty judgment is being handed,” are the words that keep echoing in Godden Matanga’s head, from the moment he was sentenced to death in 2001. These words ...

Willa Blake Eslick was the first woman ever to be elected to Congress from the State of Tennessee. Mrs. Eslick served only an abbreviated term in the U. S. House of Representatives and was elected ...