Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, launched a lawsuit against the state in a bid to stop her scheduled execution via lethal injection.

Only one of the 42 people on Tennessee’s death row is a woman, who is imprisoned for allegedly torturing and killing her fellow classmate in 1995. Christa Pike is scheduled to be the first female ...

This is the worst treatment I have seen by far” of anyone on death row, said the Rev. Jeff Hood of Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s ...

Only a tiny fraction of those condemned to death in the United States are women. Yet their stories reveal how gender, trauma, and systemic bias combine to influence who receives the death penalty and ...

Tennessee has scheduled the execution of Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on the state's death row. Florida has executed two women in its history: Serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2002 and 'Black ...

There have been 10 executions in the U.S. since the start of 2026, including the execution of James Broadnax on Thursday. There are more than 30 scheduled executions remaining this year. As of April ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...