A Jacksonville man convicted of killing a 5‑month‑old baby in 1996 is scheduled for execution June 2 after decades of failed ...

Dr. Mark Walton Fowler played a key role in the attempt to put Tony Carruthers to death by lethal injection before it was ...

Tony Carruthers was granted a one-year reprieve from death after his executioners failed to find a vein for lethal injection.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, Tony ...

Attorneys for Tony Carruthers, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning in Tennessee, have filed an emergency stay ...

An attorney who was present for a planned execution of Tony Carruthers in Tennessee says it was called off after officials ...

It is the sixth failed lethal-injection execution in less than 10 years.

ATMORE, Ala. -- 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, ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...

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 ...