Three executions are scheduled to take place before Lee leaves office

Gov. Bill Lee issues one-year reprieve after emergency filing with Tennessee Supreme Court

The idea that three victims were buried alive has persisted for decades despite expert refutations and doubt from the original medical examiner

The only woman on the state's death row bases challenge on the U.S. and Tennessee constitutions and her ‘unique medical conditions’

Working against the clock, attorneys wage a multifront campaign against the state and Gov. Bill Lee

In March of 1988, Black shot his girlfriend and her two daughters; under today’s standard he would not be eligible for the death penalty

Smith, who was convicted of the 1989 murders of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons, was put to death by lethal injection Thursday morning, marking the return of the state’s death penalty

Oscar Smith and Byron Black could be executed before a court reviews Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol