Nichols was sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen Pulley. His attorneys filed a clemency ...

"There are people whom the (prison) system works for. Wayne is one of those people," his attorney said. Nichols is scheduled ...

A Knox County judge has ordered the state of Tennessee to release records related to the state’s lethal execution protocol. This order comes as a death row inmate is suing the state, ...

A man convicted of stabbing a woman to death during a home invasion robbery is set to be executed at Florida State Prison ...

On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.