A DEATH row killer who brutally tortured and murdered a 23-year-old woman has had his execution canceled just days before he was due to die. William Lee Thompson, 74, was handed a last-minute ...

The Republican withdrew the death warrant for 74-year-old William Lee Thompson late Thursday without providing a reason.

Christa Pike is awake and speaking less than a week after surviving a botched execution attempt, which included two doses of lethal injection drugs, her lawyers said Tuesday. The convicted murderer, ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Christa Pike’s death sentence is still in effect, but whether Tennessee can ever carry it out could depend on what happens to her brain and her body. Pike is reportedly ...

Nothing will happen anytime soon, for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee halted executions for the remainder of the year and ordered a “third-party review.” In the aftermath of the failed execution, the ...

Death row inmate Christa Pike remains hospitalized in critical condition days after surviving a failed execution attempt in Tennessee, her attorney said on Oct. 4. Pike, 50, was taken to a ...

Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike this week has resulted in fresh scrutiny of the shaky and secretive supply chain for lethal injection drugs. Pharmaceutical companies no longer provide ...

Lethal injection has proven to be a difficult execution method to get right. It is more frequently botched than any other method. Sometimes, the results are catastrophic, as they were in Wednesday’s ...

After Tennessee tried and failed to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection Wednesday, the state’s governor announced that executions would be halted there amid an investigation into what happened.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Had the drugs killed Christa Pike, she would have been the first woman executed by Tennessee in over two centuries (Handout) ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Christa Pike’s failed execution attempt comes just four months after the botched execution of Tony Carruthers, whose family has since filed a medical malpractice lawsuit.