The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday. Gov. Kay Ivey, in announcing ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

May 21 (UPI) --A Tennessee man's execution was called off on Thursday after state Department of Corrections officers could not find a vein for a backup intravenous line. Gov. Bill Lee said he granted ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced he is issuing a temporary one-year reprieve after death row inmate Tony Carruthers’ execution was stalled due to medical complications Thursday ...