The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one so young.

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

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The State of Tennessee has set the execution date for Christa Pike, who was convicted of brutally stabbing and killing a fellow Knoxville Job Corps worker in 1995. According ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Citing authorities, News 2’s Memphis sister station WREG reported that Carruthers and an accomplice were convicted of kidnapping, ...

Gov. Bill Haslam says corrections officials have told him Tennessee’s first execution since 2009 was handled in a “very professional manner.” Haslam told reporters Tuesday that state corrections ...

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. A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of prisoners ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has refused to release records that could illuminate his decision to abruptly halt the execution of Oscar Smith last month. Lee has said the execution drugs for Smith weren't ...