Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Byron Black. (Tennessee Department of ...

The law of execution often reveals the real gap between paper rights and ground reality. A decree may declare who is entitled to property, but its actual value is tested only when possession ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row inmate’s heart-regulating implant before his execution ...