Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman on Tennessee's death row is still alive after two attempts at lethal injections. It's the second time this year that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With each passing day, Christa Gail Pike draws closer to execution. The Tennessee Supreme Court has set her time for 10 a.m.

The chaotic developments that unfolded late Wednesday when the state of Tennessee sought to carry out a death penalty for Christa Pike fall under a broad category that experts call botched executions.

LeJames Norman, 40, killed at Huntsville penitentiary while scheduled execution in Georgia halted by judge A man convicted over the shooting deaths of three people was executed on Wednesday in Texas, ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee paused statewide executions and ordered an independent inquiry after a prolonged, failed attempt to execute a woman on Sept. 30. Christa Pike, convicted of torturing and ...

Tennessee's failed execution of Christa Pike marks the latest in the country's long history of botched lethal injections. Since 1982, there have been at least 64 botched executions, the vast majority ...

A female Tennessee death row inmate has asked that she be killed by an all-female execution squad after she was convicted for murdering her classmate more than 30 years ago. Investigators said that ...

Christa Pike is set to die Sept. 30 for torturing and murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court is not stopping Christa Pike's upcoming execution. Pike, 50, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. She ...

Alabama executed the convicted killer of a famous Elvis Presley impersonator by lethal injection on Thursday, three months after a judge's ruling blocked the state from putting him to death with ...

A Georgia judge has put an execution scheduled for Wednesday on hold, saying the condemned inmate is entitled to a hearing on whether his sentence should be reduced under a new state law that allows ...