Tony Carruthers returned to death row last week after surviving the state’s failed attempt to execute him by lethal injection. After the public failure by the Tennessee Department of Correction, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The execution of a Tennessee death row inmate has been postponed after staff were unable to find a vein to administer a lethal ...

Attorneys for Tony Carruthers, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday morning in Tennessee, have filed an emergency stay ...

Capital defense lawyer Maria DeLiberato met her client last March. Tony Carruthers was scheduled to face the death penalty ...

The person charged with administering the lethal drug failed to find a vein, and the execution was aborted, according to a person who witnessed the incident.

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...

The Florida Supreme Court is being asked to step in and stop the clock on Ronald Heath’s upcoming execution, as his legal team levels explosive accusations of "reckless maladministration" against the ...

TDOC called off the execution of Tony Carruthers after repeated attempts to find a vein for lethal injection failed.

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 ...