Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shows an electric chair and gurney ...

Following a the failed execution Tony Carruthers, defense attorneys have filed a lawsuit in Davidson County challenging Tennessee's lethal injection protocol. In this week's Ask Isaacs, 6 News Anchor ...

The three cases, unfolding within 24 hours, share a disturbing set of commonalities: fundamentally unfair sentencing proceedings, defendants whose severe mental illness, unaddressed childhood trauma ...

It remains unclear why some death row inmates face execution much earlier or later than other condemned prisoners. In 2007, ...

Tony Carruthers had been scheduled to be executed on May 21 at 10 a.m. But the execution was ultimately halted. The post Death row execution halted after failed procedure – critics slam “barbaric” ...

Oklahoma Mary Fallin (R) has ordered an independent review of the state’s procedures for executions in response to a botched execution of an inmate. Fallin’s announcement came a day after inmate ...

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Thirty years ago while on probation for fracturing an infant’s skull, Andrew Lukehart was at it again with another infant.