MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man who is set to be executed in the coming weeks for a 1994 triple murder is pleading with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to issue him a stay after claiming forensic evidence that ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Death row exonerees and other innocence experts are calling on Gov. Bill Lee to halt the scheduled execution of 59-year-old Tony Carruthers, arguing untested DNA evidence ...

When 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee was kidnapped, raped, strangled and drowned in the small Florida city of Mascotte nearly 40 years ago, a surprising suspect emerged: a rookie cop named James Duckett ...

April 24 (UPI) --The Department of Justice said on Friday it has reinstated the use of lethal injection and expanded the execution protocol to include firing squad, which are among other moves to ...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel fill out a screening test used to assess “harmful patterns of alcohol consumption and routinely used by ...

Lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a motion to test DNA evidence they say was not previously examined in the case of Tony Carruthers, a Shelby County man accused and convicted ...

Last-minute DNA testing in James Duckett's case were found to be "inconclusive," according to the lab. State Prosecutors asked the Florida Supreme Court to lift a stay and to move forward with his ...

James Duckett was granted a rare stay of execution Thursday ahead of his scheduled lethal injection on Tuesday. The state is asking for the stay to be lifted. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on ...

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Court documents show Florida’s Supreme Court stayed the execution of James Duckett, as court-ordered DNA testing has not been completed. Duckett was scheduled to be executed March ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday paused next week’s scheduled execution of James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer, who was convicted in 1988 of raping, choking and drowning an ...

A Florida grandmother is sharing how foster care adoption transformed not only her daughter’s family, but her own life as well. $30,000 in cash returned after man leaves fanny pack in Wawa restroom A ...

The Florida Supreme Court issued an order Thursday afternoon staying the scheduled execution of James Aren Duckett, just five days before he was set to be put to death by lethal injection. Duckett, a ...