A Tennessee bill that sought to charge women who seek abortions with homicide, including the death penalty, died in a House subcommittee on March 10.

With a December 3, 2026 execution date on the books, Blount County Circuit Court Judge David R. Duggan has ordered state-appointed experts to evaluate death-row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton, setting up a ...

Two Tennessee lawmakers are proposing an amendment to classify abortion as a capital crime. The legislation seeks to give ...

A Tennessee death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student. Harold Wayne Nichols will be put to death via lethal injection.

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. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...

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 ...

Some incidents are so disturbing that time doesn’t dull their impact. This is one of them. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly three decades on death row in Tennessee. She was just 20 years old when a ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...