Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christa Pike's lawyers have filed a clemency petition seeking to commute her sentence ahead of the 30 September execution date ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said Monday that he doesn't plan to intervene in the scheduled execution of ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said Monday that he doesn't plan to intervene in the scheduled execution of Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder. Pike's legal team had filed ...
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 — ...
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay Christa Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to ...
Christa Pike is set to die Sept. 30 for torturing and murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...
Christa Pike's lawyers have filed a clemency petition seeking to commute her sentence ahead of the 30 September execution date Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, ...
A female Tennessee death row inmate has asked that she be killed by an all-female execution squad after she was convicted for murdering her classmate more than 30 years ago. Investigators said that ...
Nothing went to plan the day Christa Pike was scheduled to be killed by lethal injection. First, court battles pushed the process back more than eight hours. And Pike ultimately ended the night of ...
A death row inmate — set to become the first woman put to death in Tennessee in over 200 years — was granted a stay by a federal appeals court just over an hour before her scheduled execution. Christa ...
Dr. Shirley Reese returned to the site where she and 14 other girls were held for nearly 60 days after challenging segregation in Americus. Georgia State Patrol (GSP) is investigating a multi-vehicle ...