Tennessee has 1st execution in nearly a decade

New execution date to be set for Robert Roberson, who killed his 2 ...

Roberson was ...

Alabama Executions - Equal Justice Initiative

Samra struggled on the gurney before he died. A 19-year-old with significant cognitive impairments but no significant criminal history when he was arrested and ...

Tennessee could resume executions by end of year - WKRN

Executions have been paused in Tennessee since April 2022, when Gov. Bill Lee ordered they be put on hold after a report and lawsuits ...

Lee calls off execution of Tennessee's oldest death row inmate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's governor announced Thursday that he was calling off what was to have been the state's first execution since ...

New execution date to be set for Robert Roberson, who killed his 2 ...

Roberson, who was ...

Why This Inmate Chose the Electric Chair Over Lethal Injection

Nearly four decades had passed without an inmate being put to death in Tennessee when state lawmakers, in 1998, added lethal injection as a ...

South Carolina inmate dies by lethal injection in state's first ...

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state's first execution in more than a decade.

Tennessee executes first prisoner since 2009, despite plea by bishops

Memphis, Tenn., Aug 10, 2018 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Tennessee carried out its first execution in nearly a decade on Thursday evening. Governor ...

Tennessee: New execution process to be completed by end of year

Lee eventually requested an independent review into the state's lethal injection procedure, which was released in December 2022. According to ...

The Cruel Durability of Capital Punishment - Mother Jones

Executions resumed on August 9, 2018, nine years after the last one. Billy Ray Irick was put to death for the 1985 murder of 7-year-old Paula ...

Tennessee orders first death sentence in a decade, executes man ...

The state gave its first death sentence in nearly a decade. ... Irick was the first inmate to be executed in Tennessee since 2009.

Historical Timeline - Death Penalty - ProCon.org

"The first execution by lethal gas in American history [was] carried out in Carson City, Nevada on Feb. 8, 1924. The executed man was [Gee Jon], a member of a ...

Tennessee set to kill 1st inmate in nearly a decade - WBAL Radio

It was the first execution in Tennessee since December 2009, when inmate Cecil Johnson received a lethal injection for the 1980 killings of ...

Blind Tennessee inmate set to die in the electric chair for killing ex ...

Hall was convicted in the 1991 burning death of his estranged girlfriend. He had his sight when he entered death row nearly three decades ...

Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape ...

The new Tennessee law, which goes into effect July 1, authorizes the state to pursue capital punishment when an adult is convicted of ...

Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report - BBC

Republican Governor Bill Lee paused them in May after calling off the execution of inmate Oscar Smith an hour before he was scheduled to be put ...

Tennessee corrections chief says new process for executing ...

Back then, Republican Gov. Bill Lee put a hold on executions after acknowledging the state had failed to ensure its lethal injection drugs were ...

Tennessee executes Billy Ray Irick, carrying out its 1st execution in ...

Inmate Billy Ray Irick, 59, received a three-drug injection at a maximum-security prison in Nashville and was pronounced dead at 7:48 p.m., ...

Update: U.S. carries out first federal execution in nearly two decades

The bells announced the 8:07 am death of Daniel Lewis Lee. Less than 24 hours before, a temporary stay of all scheduled federal executions was announced.

Tennessee carries out execution of Billy Ray Irick with controversial ...

Tennessee has carried out the execution of a man condemned for the 1985 rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, marking the first time the state has applied ...