DEATH row killer Christa Pike is under guard and “may not fully recover” from her botched execution, her attorney has revealed. Pike, 50, remains hospitalised and critically ill after

With capital punishment on the wane, executions have become the purview of a shrinking number of places.

The Florida Supreme Court unanimously dismissed an emergency petition from death-row inmate William Lee Thompson, 74, seeking transfer for severe medical conditions, ruling on procedural grounds and leaving unresolved the question of adequate medical care prior to his scheduled Oct.

THE BOTCHED execution of Christa Pike has saved death row killer Gary Wayne Sutton weeks before his own lethal injection. Pike, 50, is under guard in hospital and remains critically ill after

Christa Pike became the first death row inmate to survive lethal injection Wednesday in what an expert dubbed a “singular and unparalleled” event. Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution’s death chamber just before 7:30 p.

While Christa Pike's execution attempt has some turning their attention to her case for the first time, the family of Colleen Slemmer has waited 31 years for Pike to take her last breath.

Christa Pike has spent the past 30 years in prison, and she deserves to spend the rest of her life there. Everyone agrees on that. The debate is over how long the rest of her life should be. Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) and Tennessee’s court system believe Pike should be executed.

No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene, but the jury convicted Douglas Stewart Carter, a Black man, based on a confession and two witnesses who later recanted.