NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Christa Gail Pike — who was sentenced to death as a teen for the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old ...

Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed Senate Bill 251, which would change how Kentucky sets execution protocols. Lawmakers could still ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

Lawmakers argued over the morality of the death penalty as they voted on a bill that would allow the Department of Corrections to bypass the formal administrative regulations process in coming up with ...

Two classic translational blocks are compounded by an execution gap characterized by weak cross-functional mobilization, slow ...