A death row prisoner who tortured and murdered a teenager is set to be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, was sentenced to death when she was 18 for the brutal ...

STARKE, Fla. — Florida carried out its first execution of the year on Tuesday. Ronald Heath was executed for the murder of Michael Sheridan, committed in 1989. The execution follows a record-breaking period for the state’s death penalty. Florida ...

The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been scheduled for execution more than 30 years after she brutally killed a teenage romantic rival and showed off a piece of the victim's skull to schoolmates. The Tennessee Supreme Court scheduled the execution ...

Tennessee's sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years. Her execution is scheduled for September 30, 2026 - more than 30 years after authorities said Pike, then 18, violently killed ...

STARKE, Fla. -- A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar was the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday after a three-drug injection at ...

McALESTER, Okla. — A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma’s first execution of the year. Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:19 CST following a three-drug injection at the ...

STARKE — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman he and his brother had met at a bar has become the first person executed in Florida this year. Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday following a three-drug injection at ...