Tennessee has scheduled the execution of the only woman on the state's death row. According to USA TODAY, Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she and two others lured romantic rival Colleen ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the only woman on the state's death row. 49-year-old Christa Gail Pike is set to be executed on Sept. 30, 2026, more than 31 years after she ...

If Christa Pike's execution is carried out, she would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and the 19th woman executed in modern U.S. history.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Joseph Naso, the convicted murderer known as the " Alphabet Killer," is once again under scrutiny following new claims he may have killed as many as 26 women—and that he was "giddy" about one victim ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man nicknamed the “Deacon of Death” was executed Tuesday evening, nearly 30 years after committing two murders in Plant City. Samuel Smithers, 72, was a church deacon when he ...

The fatal stabbing on a Charlotte light-rail train last month has prompted calls for the revival of the death penalty in North Carolina. North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger said Thursday he wants ...