Christa Gail Pike, 36, would be the only person in the modern era of U.S. capital punishment to be executed in Tennessee for a crime committed as a teenager. Reuters file Sept 30 (Reuters) - Christa ...

OUTCOME: Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman, was hospitalized after the state tried and failed to execute her in Tennessee, USA, on the evening of September 30, 2026. She was convicted in 1996 of a ...

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 body of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, was found hanging from a tree branch behind an abandoned property in Jackson, Miss., last month. By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Jackson, Miss. A ...

Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a “staged” scene behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a "staged" scene behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Less than one week before the scheduled execution of the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, the state’s Supreme Court has denied a request to stay the execution. The ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Mississippi detective testified Friday that the hanging death of ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Investigators believe Tasia Fortune was already dead before the Black woman's body was hanged from a tree behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective ...

Johan Hegg // Vocals Olavi Mikkonen // Guitar Johan Söderberg // Guitar Ted Lundström // Bass Jocke Wallgren // Drums I would argue that the reason to seek this album out is the wonderful mid album ...

It's been a long 30-year wait, but the day has almost arrived. Next week, May Martinez plans to sit in the front row of a Tennessee execution chamber, clutching a picture of her late daughter as she ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Less than one week before the scheduled execution of the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, the state’s Supreme Court has denied a request to stay the execution. The ...