Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lawyers for the only woman on Tennessee's death row have filed a motion with the Tennessee Supreme Court, arguing that the ...

Christa Pike, poised to be the first woman Tennessee executes by lethal injection, is pleading with the Tennessee Supreme Court to spare her. Her attorneys’ arguments lean on Pike’s childhood sexual ...

A federal Alabama judge has prohibited the state from executing an inmate this week using the controversial new method of nitrogen gas, ruling that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...

Twenty-six years ago, Jeffrey Lee was sentenced to death for a double homicide and attempted murder he committed in a Dallas County pawn shop in 1998. But the jury didn't vote to put him to death — ...

More than 20 current and incoming Quinnipiac University women's rugby players have filed a federal lawsuit against the university, claiming the planned elimination of the varsity program violates ...

Piling on guardrails is the sign of a system permanently compensating for its own unreliability. There’s a better approach. According to Sonar’s State of Code Developer Survey report for 2026, based ...

Tennessee halted the execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers on Thursday, his attorney said, after the officers tasked with establishing an intravenous line through which to administer lethal ...