The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a lower court's order that would have let media witnesses view ...

The Tennessee attorney general's office pushed back hard, telling the Supreme Court that the media coalition has no special ...

Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years. Her execution is scheduled for September 30, 2026 — more than 30 ...

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

In the last 50 years, the United States has put more than 1,600 people to death. Only 18 of them have been women.

A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions, after a coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press ...

Tennessee death row inmate, Christa Pike, allegedly killed her classmate in 1995. She is scheduled to be the first woman ...

Gov. Bill Haslam says corrections officials have told him Tennessee’s first execution since 2009 was handled in a “very professional manner.” Haslam told reporters Tuesday that state corrections ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered ...