The staff attempted to locate a proper vein for 1.5 hours before the execution was aborted, and Carruthers was returned to a ...

Christa Pike is scheduled to be executed on September 30.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Executions in the United States are frequently botched, but even then, they almost always result in the death of the person being ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is declining to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution of death row inmate Darrell Hines, even as his attorneys claim he could suffer cruel and unusual punishment because of an ...

(CNN) — An Alabama death row inmate whose execution went wrong is asking that his death sentence be vacated. The attempted execution was "botched and bloody," as the inmate's lawyer put it, and left ...

Demonstrators marched to the state capitol Sunday, calling for a pause of the execution of Darrell Hines Thursday, after a ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

Tennessee's recent attempt to execute Tony Carruthers failed after the team could not establish an IV line. Gov. Bill Lee announced he will not order a review of the state's lethal injection protocol ...