The execution of Tennessee death row inmate Byron Black is scheduled for 10 a.m. Aug. 5 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institute in Nashville. Black's case has made national headlines over concerns ...

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. May 22. Smith, 75, received a death sentence after the October 1989 killings of his estranged wife, ...

Byron Black, the 69-year-old man convicted of the murders of his ex-girlfriend and her two daughters in 1988, was put to death by the state the morning of Aug. 5, and he appeared to be in pain as the ...

Tennessee carried out its first execution in more than five years Thursday morning, marking the first time the state used a new lethal injection protocol involving a single dose of pentobarbital.

Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...