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.

Gary Wayne Sutton, convicted in the 1992 murders of Tommy Griffin and Connie Branam, had been scheduled for execution on December 3.

FROM the sickening smell of the execution chamber to haunting gasps of a convict’s last breath, witnesses have revealed the secrets of death row. A handful of people are allowed to observe

The lone woman on Tennessee’s death row was still alive on Wednesday night after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution.