Some incidents are so disturbing that time doesn’t dull their impact. This is one of them. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly ...

Disclaimer: The article has mentions of killing. Christa Gail Pike is currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, ...

Death penalty opponents in Tennessee got a jump on this year’s abolition efforts by urging the state to stop all executions ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black ...

A coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media's access ...

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson dismissed Nichols' lawsuit on Nov. 26, ruling that the statute of limitations barred him from challenging his method of execution. His attorneys at the Federal ...

Tennessee Executions Lawsuit FILE - India Pungarcher, left, hugs Rev. Ingrid McIntyre as demonstrators gather in the area reserved for anti-death penalty protesters outside Riverbend Maximum Security ...