Some incidents are so disturbing that time doesn’t dull their impact. This is one of them. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly three decades on death row in Tennessee. She was just 20 years old when a ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that allows a former Tennessee death row inmate to be eligible for parole in four years after spending more than three decades in prison.

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 ...