A failed execution in Tennessee has brought attention back to Arizona's lethal injection problems under Frank Strada, who now heads Tennessee's corrections department.

An Arizona death row inmate and his team of attorneys are asking the governor and attorney general to pause executions as they request an independent review of lethal injection protocols.

The official who oversaw Arizona's 2022 execution troubles now runs Tennessee's prison department, where a woman's execution was botched Wednesday ...

The Tennessee prisons chief overseeing the botched execution of Christa Pike on Sept. 30 was previously accused of mishandling prisoner executions in Arizona.

A prison official who oversaw three botched executions in Arizona resigned his post in Tennessee last week after the failed ...

FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match was put to death Wednesday, the first of three executions planned this week ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christa Pike remained alive Wednesday after Tennessee officials gave her two drug injections during a failed execution, according ...

As Tennessee investigates the failed execution of Christa Pike, a former Arizona official who conducted an independent review of that state’s death penalty system says the state should take a broad ...

Arizona executed 63-year-old Leroy Dean McGill by lethal injection at 10 a.m. on May 20 for the 2002 murder of Charles Perez. McGill was convicted in 2004 of first-degree murder, attempted ...

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An Arizona journalist who witnessed Joseph Wood's execution says warning signs preceded Christa Pike's failed lethal injection.