Christa Pike released from hospital following botched execution, lawyers say

Christa Pike survived despite being given two doses of a lethal injection.

• Oct 10

Christa Pike has pneumonia, unable to move arms after botched execution

Attorneys for Christa Pike, the Tennessee inmate who survived two doses of a lethal injection during her botched execution last week, shared an update on her health condition.

• Oct 8

Tennessee prison system head to resign after failed Christa Pike execution

Christa Pike remains alive but unconscious and intubated after her failed execution on Wednesday, her lawyers said.

• Oct 3

Tennessee cancels executions after Christa Pike survives botched injection

Tennessee canceled its remaining scheduled execution this year after Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, survived two doses of a botched lethal injection. A witness said she was "clearly very alive."

• Oct 1

Tennessee's attempt to execute Christa Pike using lethal injection fails

Tennessee officials on Wednesday night were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Pike, according to her attorneys and media witnesses. CBS News has this report.

• Oct 1

Indiana man put to death for murder of police officer in 2000

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection this week in the state's second execution in 15 years.

• May 20, 2025

South Carolina man is executed by firing squad

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the other choices offered by the state to be worse.

• Mar 7, 2025

Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

• Dec 24, 2024

Indiana conducts first execution in 15 years, puts quadruple killer to death

An Indiana man, Joseph Corcoran, convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister's fiancé decades ago was put to death, without any independent witness, marking the state's first execution in 15 years.

• Dec 18, 2024

Alabama executes Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia

Alabama went through with its planned execution on Thursday of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was the first condemned inmate in the U.S. put to death using nitrogen gas.

• Jan 26, 2024

Alabama inmate opposes being "test subject" for new execution method

Nitrogen gas is authorized as an execution method in three states but it has never been used to put an inmate to death.

• Sep 26, 2023

Pope Francis says homosexuality "is not a crime," but gay sex is "a sin"

The Catholic leader spoke about laws discriminating against LGBTQ people, his health and his predecessor in a wide-ranging interview with the AP.

• Jan 25, 2023