Pike’s lawyers say she was heard snoring and remained breathing after two injections Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Tennessee failed to execute the lone woman on its death row as planned Wednesday, after injecting her with a lethal drug, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the ...

An injection of a lethal drug failed to execute the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row Wednesday, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.

The first woman set to be put to death in Tennessee in over 200 years was given two doses of a lethal injection Wednesday evening, but remained alive as her botched execution descended into chaos — ...

Tennessee inmate Christa Pike was in critical condition and receiving “lifesaving medical care” on Thursday, a day after surviving two failed lethal injection attempts by state executioners, according ...

Sisters Emory and Harlow Deacon were found deceased in their home last week Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal writer at PEOPLE's crime desk. Her work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington ...

Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was. By Emily Cochrane and Ann E. Marimow Emily ...

A South Carolina mother told investigators she could not remember the last time she gave her two young daughters food or something to drink before deputies found both children dead inside their home, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Christa Pike is alive after she was administered a lethal injection on Wednesday night, according to witnesses. Witnesses said a second dose of pentobarbital was used after ...

U.S. forces are set to depart from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a move celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies, who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died ...

LADSON, S.C. (WCBD) – A Ladson woman charged in the deaths of two young children had been the subject of repeated law enforcement and agency visits before the children were found dead inside a ...