CHRISTA Pike is scheduled to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than two centuries. The 50-year-old has spent more than half her life on death row following a crime that shocked

A death row inmate in Tennessee was about an hour away from execution before everything changed. Christa Pike‘s execution was […]

Douglas Stewart Carter, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of Utah teacher Eva Olesen, was released on bail after DNA evidence did not link him to the crime. Carter is free under GPS supervision while he awaits a new trial.

The Cornell University study concluded that death row inmates overwhelmingly choose comfort food as their last wish. Researchers analyzed 193 final meal requests across the United States, finding that French fries, soda, ice cream, burgers, chicken, steak, and pie topped the list.

The Mississippi Supreme Court will allow death row inmate Devin Allen Bennett to file a new appeal for his case.

Christa Gail Pike, 50, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday morning for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in a fit of jealous rage.

Pike's procedure is scheduled for 10 am local time on Wednesday, September 30. Until then, she will spend her day adhering to a tight schedule. At some point on Tuesday, September 29, Pike will be moved from the women’s prison in Nashville to the nearby Riverbend Maximum Security Institution,