Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 ...

For the first time in more than 200 years, Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman on death row. Christa Gail Pike’s case is on everyone’s lips as they debate the legal and ethical concerns. Pike, ...

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

The victim's own 911 call, unanswered in time to save her, again looms over Florida's latest scheduled execution.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

Former Central Florida police officer James A. Duckett is scheduled to be executed on March 31 for the 1987 rape and murder ...

Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...