After spending decades in prison for a gruesome murder, Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee ...

A murder convict who survived a botched execution attempt in Tennessee has described the constant physical pain she suffers a ...

Christa Pike was a student at the Knoxville Job Corps, a federal job training program, when she brutally killed fellow student Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

Ronald Lopez Andrade, 37, is facing the death penalty for the murder of 30-year-old Yaimi Guevara Machado, whom he raped and ...

Alabama has 154 death row inmates, but only five are women. Here's what to know.

Christa Pike survived two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital during a failed execution attempt. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of fellow Job Corps student Colleen ...

DEATH row killer Christa Pike attempted a second grisly murder while serving a life sentence in prison. Pike, who remains in hospital after surviving two doses of lethal injection, was found ...

The first woman sentenced to death in Tennessee in 200 years said she is “at peace” before her rare execution — as the state’s governor declined to get involved in her last-ditch bid for clemency.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday night cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death ...

Women account for only 1% of all executions in the U.S., but experts say they face unique challenges in the legal system.