The Kentucky House on Tuesday passed Senate Bill 251, legislation that would change how the state Department of Corrections implements execution protocols.

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman praised the Kentucky House of Representatives and Kentucky State Senate in passing ...

Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Davidson County chancellor has ordered state prison officials to allow official witnesses to see more of the process when an inmate is put to death. Several media groups including ...

A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of prisoners, from the time the condemned person enters the execution chamber ...