As Christa Pike waits to become first woman executed in Tennessee, here's a look at death penalty cases that ended ...

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of his attorneys said.

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 ...

Corrections officials in Tennessee halt an inmate's execution by lethal injection after medical staff repeatedly fail to find ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The botched execution sparked immediate backlash. Witness say medical staff struggled to find a vein to administer a lethal ...

The lawyers for the only woman on Tennessee’s death row have filed a motion with the Tennessee Supreme Court, arguing that ...

The lawyers for the only woman on Tennessee’s death row have filed a motion with the Tennessee Supreme Court, arguing that the state is not equipped to carry out her execution constitutionally, ...

The botched execution sparked immediate backlash. Witness say medical staff struggled to find a vein to administer a lethal injection.