NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...

Gov. Bill Haslam says corrections officials have told him Tennessee’s first execution since 2009 was handled in a “very professional manner.” Haslam told reporters Tuesday that state corrections ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution for a convicted child killer after the Tennessee Supreme Court and governor decided against a delay. In a ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The State of Tennessee has set the execution date for Christa Pike, who was convicted of brutally stabbing and killing a fellow Knoxville Job Corps worker in 1995. According ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Citing authorities, News 2’s Memphis sister station WREG reported that Carruthers and an accomplice were convicted of kidnapping, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A man convicted of murdering a brother and sister in Blount and Sevier counties in 1992 is awaiting ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of prisoners ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has refused to release records that could illuminate his decision to abruptly halt the execution of Oscar Smith last month. Lee has said the execution drugs for Smith weren't ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled four executions in 2026. Executions resumed in 2025 after a multi-year revision of Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol led to a ...