The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a Memphis judge did not have the authority to give a man formerly on death row ...

Payne had been on death row for the killings of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. In January 2022, Judge Paula Skahan sentenced Payne to concurrent sentences of life with the possibility of ...

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 that he was ...

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 that he was intellectually disabled and could ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and five other people are scheduled to be ...

It comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald Trump calls for the death penalty's expansion.

The death penalty was sought in Pontotoc County District Court in March for the first time in more than 20 years. Richard Dewayne Chambers, 42, is accused of murdering three people in December.

Finally, in 1846, Michigan became the first state to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state), mostly because it had no long tradition of capital punishment (there had been ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation’s sixth execution by nitrogen gas. Gregory Hunt, 65, was pronounced dead ...