David Joseph Pittman is scheduled for execution for the 1990 stabbing deaths of three family members in Mulberry. Pittman's attorneys have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay, citing an ...

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...

Two Christian men face each other across hundreds of court documents and news stories. Harold “Wayne” Nichols, sentenced to death in 1990 for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Karen Pulley, is ...

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...