NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only woman on Tennessee's death row is taking legal action -- claiming the state's execution method could cause her to drown ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled four executions in 2026. Executions resumed in 2025 after a multi-year revision of Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol led to a ...

In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, ...