Byron Black, a 68-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has filed a petition with the Tennessee Supreme Court to halt his ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

The office of Kelley Henry, a federal defender representing death row prisoners in Tennessee, has formally requested that Gov. Bill Lee pause executions through March 1, 2026, pending a court ...

A death row inmate set to be executed later this year has asked the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling and consider whether he’s incompetent to be executed.