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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last ...

Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last year. The drug is expected to be used again for death row inmate Roy ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...