The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been scheduled for execution more than 30 years after she brutally killed a teenage romantic rival and showed off a piece of the victim's skull to ...

Trigger Warning: The article contains details of murder. Reader discretion is advised. Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, has been scheduled to be executed next year. The ...

Christa Pike is the only woman on death row. Gary Wayne Sutton and supporters maintain he is innocent. Tony Carruthers represented himself at trial.

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

<Tennessee's only woman on death row is asking a federal judge in Knoxville to prevent her execution.Christa Gail Pike's lawyer filed a petition claiming his client's constitutional rights were ...

Pike was moved out of what her attorneys argued was solitary confinement last year. Pike is the only woman on death row in Tennessee. One of the other people convicted alongside Pike goes up for ...

A federal court has denied a request to release and overturn the death penalty conviction for Christa Gail Pike, a former Knoxville resident who was sentenced two decades ago for the brutal torture ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has refused to overturn the death sentence for Tennessee’s only female condemned prisoner. Christa Gail Pike is one of Tennessee’s most notorious prisoners, ...

<NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A former correctional officer was in court Wednesday on charges related to a plot to break out Tennessee's lone female death row inmate, Christa Gail Pike. Justin Heflin, of ...

If Christa Gail Pike’s execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...