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

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, alongside accomplices Tadaryl Shipp and Shadolla Peterson

The only woman on Tennessee's death row is scheduled to become the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years. Here's what we know so far.

Former Virginia death row prisoner Justin Wolfe was released Sept. 28 after 25 years behind bars, following a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that vacated his murder conviction and dismissed related charges,

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.

The death penalty phase begins for Alberto Sierra, who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and her two young daughters in 2012.

A Virginia man’s murder conviction has been vacated, freeing him after 25 years in prison, including over a decade on death row

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