Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar Franklin Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of his estranged wife, Judith Robirds Smith, and ...

“I am granting Tony Von Carruthers a temporary reprieve from execution for one year," Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The execution of a Tennessee death row inmate convicted of kidnapping and killing three people was called off Thursday after the ...

An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others are defiant. Many seek salvation.

A death row inmate was executed despite his cousin confessing to being the true killer. James Broadnax, 37, received a death sentence for the 2008 fatal shootings of two Christian music producers ...

Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – Tennessee death row inmate Tony Carruthers, who was facing execution by lethal injection Thursday morning, was granted a one year stay of execution after officials struggled ...