Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at a Knoxville job program ...

Christa Pike, A Tennessee woman on death row, sues state claiming lethal injection protocol would cause cruel death due to ...

Christa Gail Pike was convicted of hitting Slemmer on the head with a chunk of asphalt, killing her. Prosecutors said she ...

Disclaimer: The article has mentions of killing. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly three decades on death row in Tennessee.

Christa Gail Pike argued in her filing that the new protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S.

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Christa Pike is suing the state to halt her execution, arguing Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would constitute cruel ...

Indiana lawmakers seek to introduce new methods of execution. The moral costs are even heavier than the financial ones.