Each person condemned to die in Tennessee is allowed a spiritual adviser, who is with them during their execution. Their ...

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike will likely have brain damage after her botched execution, during which she ...

Christa Pike became the first death row inmate to survive lethal injection Wednesday in what an expert dubbed a “singular and ...

Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of ...

As Christa Pike’s scheduled execution date in Tennessee approaches, her defense team and human rights experts are asking officials to commute her death sentence. Pike became the sole woman on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images/iStockphoto A South Carolina death row inmate convicted of killing his estranged wife has died after an extended ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., is connected to a prison where an inmate died, leaving 21 inmates on death row.

Texas is set to execute LeJames Norman on September 16, 2026, for his role in the 2005 triple-murder case in Jackson County. Norman was sentenced to death after pleading guilty to capital murder in ...

(WSPA)—A South Carolina death row inmate has died nearly two decades after his estranged wife's killing. The SC Department of Corrections announced that Louis Michael Winkler Jr. died Monday morning ...

Our brains don’t finish developing until we’re well into our 20s. That matters when deciding who gets the death penalty.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina death row inmate Louis Michael Winkler Jr. died Friday morning at Kirkland Correctional Institution. Winkler, 66, was pronounced dead at 8:49 a.m. in Kirkland’s ...

At the age of just 20, Christa Pike was convicted of the brutal murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Now, 30 years on, Christa says that knowing the exact date of her death has left ...