Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Citing authorities, News 2’s Memphis sister station WREG reported that Carruthers and an accomplice were convicted of kidnapping, ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...

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.

Tennessee is scheduled to execute a death-row inmate Thursday morning, marking the state's third execution since May. Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, raped and killed 20-year-old college student Karen ...

Karen Pulley, 20, was brutally beaten and raped in the home she shared with two other women on Sept. 30, 1988. During a three month period spanning the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989, Nichols raped ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...