According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...

Payne was sentenced to death for the 1987 killing of Charisse Christopher, 28, and her two-year-old daughter Lacie Jo, but he has maintained his innocence for over three decades. Payne told police he ...

BREAKING: Tennessee Innocence Project and our client Scott Minton has been exonerated in Tennessee after more than three decades of wrongful conviction. No physical evidence ever connected him to ...

The Byron, Wyoming, mother who apparently shot her four daughters Monday afternoon had called 911 afterward, telling ...

The year’s first deadly US tornado struck after dark Thursday, killing two people in a small East Tennessee community as the first of five back-to-back, jet stream-driven winter storms pummeled ...

Merritt's exoneration was settled in 2024. According to thebill asking the General Assembly to compensate Merritt, a witness who said Merritt confessed to her in 2001 later told a Norfolk Circuit ...

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Tennessee has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature.

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