Christa Gail Pike, 49, will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years if her execution proceeds next September.

If Christa Pike's execution is carried out, she would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and the 19th ...

Alabama plans to carry out its fourth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Geoffrey Todd West to death by nitrogen gas ...

The state of Tennessee has officially set a date for Christa Pike's execution -- and if it goes through, she'll become the ...

Capital punishment has existed in NC since colonial times. Only lethal injection remains legal, but Iryna's law could expand ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

Democrat North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein reluctantly signed crime legislation, known as "Iryna's Law," named after a Ukrainian ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail ...

A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have bipartisan support on Monday until an amendment seeking to resume ...