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 ...

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 ...

Tony Carruthers’ execution was called off Thursday and he was given a one-year reprieve after the state Department of Corrections struggled to find a vein to set a backup injection line. Subscribe to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Tennessee are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the state from executing Tony Carruthers. The ACLU said Carruthers, who ...

WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Tennessee urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to stop Tennessee from executing Tony Carruthers and allow forensic testing that could ...