Christa Pike probably had an all-female execution staff, her attorneys said at the presser they held via Zoom on Thursday afternoon. “What I saw was consistent with that,” Randy Spivey said in ...

Christa Pike, the sole female inmate on death row in Tennessee, has refused her last meal. According to the Tennessee Department of Correction, via WJHL, Pike, 50, did not request a last meal before ...

Defense attorneys and prosecutors agree about one thing when it comes to death row inmate Christa Pike: Her childhood was uniquely traumatic. Before she was even in preschool, Pike was a rape victim.

Christa Pike, the only woman currently sitting on Tennessee’s death row, has made a final plea to Governor Bill Lee to commute her death sentence to life without parole ahead of her scheduled ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction declined to comment when asked who carried out Pike's failed lethal injection.

Christa Pike is set to become the first woman executed by the state of Tennessee in more than 200 years, and the first in the modern death penalty era, for the 1995 killing of her Job Corps colleague ...

The politician, already feeling heat for a previous failed execution, has now paused state killings for the rest of 2026.

Women make up about 1 percent of US executions. How do states put people to death, and why is it contested?

With just days remaining before her scheduled execution, Christa Pike has made a special request. She has asked Tennessee officials to keep men off the team that would carry out her execution, should ...

Women account for only 1% of all executions in the U.S., but experts say they face unique challenges in the legal system.