03 Attorney Kelly Gleason seeks clemency from Governor Bill Lee. On September 30, 2026, the Tennessee Department of Correction intends to execute 50-year-old Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of ...

A Texas death row inmate was given one final opportunity to speak Wednesday evening, moments before the state executed him for the murders of three people during a botched 2005 robbery. LeJames Norman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Christa Pike's scheduled execution date in Tennessee approaches, her defense team and human rights experts are asking officials ...

The execution of Daniel Owen Conahan Jr makes him the state’s 15th person executed this year A Florida man was executed by lethal injection on Thursday after being convicted of one of a series of ...

LeJames Norman, 40, killed at Huntsville penitentiary while scheduled execution in Georgia halted by judge A man convicted over the shooting deaths of three people was executed on Wednesday in Texas, ...

OUTCOME: Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman, was hospitalized after the state tried and failed to execute her in Tennessee, USA, on the evening of September 30, 2026. She was convicted in 1996 of a ...

Sept. 16 (UPI) --Texas executed a 40-year-old man on Wednesday night for a triple murder committed 21 years ago, making him the fifth person to be put to death by the state this year and the 26th ...

Alabama has executed a death row inmate for the murder of an Elvis impersonator and his ex-wife nearly 30 years ago. The state executed Jeffery Lee, 49, by lethal injection on Thursday, Sept. 17, just ...

Despite her last-minute appeals for clemency and legal arguments targeting Tennessee's execution procedures, Christa Pike is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 30 after spending 30 years ...

Jeffery Lee had raised concerns about use of nitrogen gas and the legacy of an abandoned practice that allowed judges to override juries on death sentences. By Rick Rojas Reporting from Atlanta ...

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