By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Background ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the ...

After a week of legal volleyball, Alabama Death Row inmate Jeffery Lee’s execution — scheduled for Thursday evening — was called off after federal courts called the state’s nitrogen gas execution ...

A death row prisoner whose planned execution Thursday was suddenly halted became emotional when he learned that a federal court had ruled Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas violates the constitutional ban ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

Florida has executed a death row inmate for the 2000 stabbing deaths of a pregnant woman and her 4-year-old daughter. Richard Knight, 47, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 21, for the ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated attempts to find a vein for lethal injection failed. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee then granted Carruthers a ...

Tony Carruthers’ execution was called off Thursday and he was given a one-year reprieve after the state Department of Corrections struggled to find a vein to set a backup injection line. Limited time: ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Gov. Bill Lee granted a one-year reprieve Thursday after Tennessee halted the planned execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers amid reported problems establishing IV ...

Convicted killer Leroy Dean McGill was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday in Arizona’s first execution of 2026. Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry officials said the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Death row inmate Tony Carruthers’ scheduled execution is set for May 21. He’s spent more than 30 years on death row, and while he’s fighting for a stay of execution to test evidence.