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

Rold describes it as a “gruesome” murder, and she doesn’t soften the details. She says Pike, along with others, tortured and ...

The only woman on Tennessee's death row is taking legal action -- claiming the state's execution method could cause her to ...

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

Brenda Andrew, the only woman on death row in Oklahoma, has lost her appeal after two decades of contesting her conviction ...

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

Brenda Andrew got a second chance on her appeal after U.S. Supreme Court ordered review of her claims. She now can go back to ...

Four executions have been set this year by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which includes the only woman on the state’s death ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Brenda Andrew’s case be reconsidered after hearing that Oklahoma prosecutors used sexist ...

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