The suit claims the state's lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

A lawsuit was filed Friday by nine death row inmates against the state of Tennessee regarding plans for their executions. Kevin Burns, Byron Black, Jon Hall, Kennath Henderson, Anthony Darrel Hines, ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Tennessee houses nearly 29% of its inmates in private prisons, ranking it among the top four states nationally. Since 2000, the number of Tennessee prisoners in private facilities has surged by 95 ...

The Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville houses Tennessee's death row inmates. “This culture of noncompliance, when ...

A group of inmates has reached a settlement with the Tennessee Department of Correction after successfully suing the department last year for not providing sign language interpreters and ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction announced in December that ... Supreme Court ordered the execution of four death row inmates beginning in May. However, according to the suit, multiple ...

A former Tennessee state senator has reported to federal prison after he pleaded guilty in 2022 to an illegal campaign finance scheme, then tried to take back his plea.