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Voters in Saturday’s Republican primary say Nikki Haley is the best person for the job – or that they’re voting against Donald Trump

Scottish Criminal Cases Review commission rules six are entitled to appeal

Newly released records show at two least two people connected to a planned Tennessee execution that was abruptly put on hold April 21 knew the night before that the lethal injection drugs the state planned to use hadn’t undergone certain required testing

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has refused to release records that could illuminate his decision to abruptly halt the execution of Oscar Smith last month

Republican Gov. Bill Lee says Tennessee will pause executions and conduct an independent review of a lethal injection testing oversight that forced him to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die this month

After an undisclosed “oversight” forced Tennessee to abruptly cancel the execution of Oscar Smith last week, his attorneys are asking for a moratorium on executions and a review of the state’s execution protocols

Tennessee is set to execute its first inmate Thursday since the start of the pandemic

Tennessee is set this week to execute its first inmate since the start of the coronavirus pandemic

DNA and a fingerprint belonging to an unidentified person has been found on one of the murder weapons, according to Oscar Smith’s attorneys