The Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director says Christa Pike is set to be the only Tennessee inmate put to death ...

Christa Gail Pike is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 30 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. On Monday, Gov. Bill Lee said he would not intervene.

Pike, then 18 years old, killed her Job Corps colleague Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Prosecutors say Pike and her then-boyfriend, ...

The state of Florida is preparing to execute Curtis Wilkie Beasley, a man convicted of using a hammer to fatally bludgeon 62-year-old Carolyn Monfort. Beasley, 77, whose execution is scheduled for ...

One of the youngest women ever sent to death row to be executed in Tennessee for ‘satanic panic’ murder - Tennessee is set to ...

What crime did Christa Pike commit? What to know about the gruesome murder that landed her on death row as she prepares to be executed ...

The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld an injunction that has prevented executions in the state since 2010, thereby extending a ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Jeremy Williams, the man convicted of the rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamari Holland, is scheduled to be executed Thursday night, making him the first person executed in ...

A file photo shows the entrance to the Florida State Prison in Starke. James Duckett, who was convicted of raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl in 1987 while working as a police officer in a small ...

There are currently 45 women in the United States that are on death row after they were found guilty of heinous acts, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. While some of the women have ...

Amidst arguments over the morality of the death penalty and mistakes made in deciding who deserves punishment, some situations remind us why capital punishment retains support. Case in point: murder ...

Who are the women on death row in the U.S.? How many women are on death row? From Taylor Parker to Kimberly Cargill, some notorious female murderers are awaiting execution. They include Darlie Routier ...