The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Right before the turn of the new year, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) announced it ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

Details about the new protocol were not made publicly available. Kelley Henry, chief of the federal public defender’s habeas unit that represents many of the state's death row inmates ...

Kelley Henry, chief of the federal public defender's habeas unit that represents many of Tennessee's death row inmates, said the announcement was "notable for its lack of detail." "The secrecy ...

More Courtesy of Kelley Henry Taylor is one of the first Death Row inmates to publicly respond to news last Monday that Biden was changing the sentences of the 37 condemned men to life in prison ...

"We know from the scientific data that single drug pentobarbital results in pulmonary edema, which has been likened to waterboarding," said Kelley Henry, a Federal public defender. Death row ...

FILE - Federal Public Defender Kelley Henry speaks during a news conference about Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith during a news conference from the the Middle Tennessee FPD's ...

Kelley Henry, chief of the federal public defender’s habeas unit that represents many of Tennessee’s death row inmates, said the announcement was “notable for its lack of detail.” ...