Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Less than one week before the scheduled execution of the only woman on Tennessee's death row, the ...

Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay Christa Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christa Pike's lawyers have filed a clemency petition seeking to commute her sentence ahead of the 30 September execution date ...

Texas has executed the second of two men who carried out a merciless triple murder more than 20 years ago in a small Texas city on the Gulf Coast. The state executed Ker'Sean Ramey, 41, by lethal ...

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A man was executed in Texas on Wednesday for a triple killing committed during a robbery attempt at a rural home, one week after the other man convicted in the case was put to death. Ker'Sean Ramey, ...

Every night, one of the men Ron McAndrew killed would sit at the foot of his bed and stare, blankly, into his tortured soul. He knew they were coming. He’d shift over in his sheets to make room. “They ...

Christa Pike, 50, convicted of murder at age 18 Failed clemency bid cited childhood sexual abuse, neglect Pike diagnosed with bipolar, post-traumatic stress disorder Pike heard gasping, snoring after ...

Christa Pike is set to die Sept. 30 for torturing and murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

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 ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court is not stopping Christa Pike's upcoming execution. Pike, 50, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. She ...

Christa Pike could be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Her supporters say she has changed in isolation; her victim’s family wants her to die. By Emily Cochrane Emily ...