NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

A Tennessee death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student. Harold Wayne Nichols will be put to death via lethal injection.

In a new legal challenge to Tennessee's execution process, death row offenders say using a firing squad would be more humane than the state's current lethal injection method. The federal lawsuit, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only woman on Tennessee's death row is taking legal action -- claiming the state's execution method could cause her to drown ...

A Tennessee death row inmate used his last words to apologize to the people he harmed before he was executed nearly four decades after he raped and murdered a “gentle, sweet, and innocent” college ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that allows a former Tennessee death row inmate to be eligible for parole in four years after spending more than three decades in prison.

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Disclaimer: The article has mentions of killing. Christa Gail Pike is currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, according to state records. She has reportedly released a statement after her ...