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.
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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.
Jamaal Howard was executed by lethal injection after his lawyers tried to argue that he faced risks similar to Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's attempt to put her to death.
Christa Pike remains alive but unconscious and intubated after her failed execution on Wednesday, her lawyers said.
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."
Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history.
A new murder trial is scheduled for Richard Glossip, a former Oklahoma death row inmate who was released on bond last month after being on the brink of execution three times.
Iran executed more than twice as many people last year as it did in 2024, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
The execution came after a divided Supreme Court lifted a stay over his intellectual‑disability claims, clearing the way for Texas' 600th lethal injection since 1982.
Since the start of the war, Iran has ramped up executions, particularly in cases involving alleged espionage or security-related charges.
Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was hanged after being convicted for allegedly collaborating with the CIA and Israel's Mossad intelligence service, Iran's judiciary said.
A Tarrant County jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death for the 2022 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand.
Tanner Horner pleaded guilty to the 2022 killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand just as his capital murder trial was set to begin.
Arrests and executions in Iran have been on the rise since the start of the regional war triggered by a U.S.-Israeli attack on Feb. 28.
Broadnax is one of two confessed suspects in the June 2008 killing of Matt Butler and Steve Swan in front of a recording studio in Garland.
The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.
Oklahoma has carried out its first execution of the year on a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting.
Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution in Alabama for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot, even though Burton did not fire the gun or witness the killing.
A Texas man became the first person executed in the U.S. this year. The man killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. At one point, he escaped prison for three days.
History in Dallas was made on Wednesday as county leaders officially acknowledged that a man convicted and sentenced to death for a murder 70 years ago was innocent.
Wednesday is expected to be one of the most significant moments in the history of the Dallas County Commissioners Court.
Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment without parole.
This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on the increase.
Missouri executed a death row inmate for fatally shooting a state trooper in 2005. The inmate, Lance Shockley, says he did not commit the crime.
One week before a scheduled execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stepped in.
A Texas man was executed Thursday for killing his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter in a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an "exorcism" to expel a demon from the child's body.
