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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only woman on Tennessee's death row is taking legal action -- claiming the state's execution method could cause her to drown ...

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Gary Wayne Sutton has been on death row since 1996 following his conviction in the 1992 killings of his close friend, Tommy Griffin, and Griffin’s sister, Connie Branam.

In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Update: The Tennessee Department of Corrections reports that death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has been executed. Nichols was pronounced dead at 10:39 a.m. “To the people ...

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 ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols picked his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. Nichols, 64, is to die by lethal injection ...

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 ...

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 ...