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

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...

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

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

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 ...

Tennessee's Department of Correction has released a redacted version of its newly completed execution manual after initially ...

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.” ...