Christa Pike remained alive more than an hour after the state of Tennessee began its attempt to execute her on September 30, 2026. It was the latest in a series of troubled executions by the Tennessee ...
On September 28, 2026, Governor Bill Lee denied a clemency request from death-sentenced prisoner Christa Pike, who is scheduled to be executed on September 30. Gov. Lee announced, “[a]fter deliberate ...
Some states carry out executions with a three-drug lethal-injection protocol. Others use a single drug. The three-drug protocol typically begins with an anesthetic or sedative, followed by a second ...
Lawyers for Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, filed a 226-page clemency petition with Governor Bill Lee, asking him to commute her death sentence to life in prison without the ...
Xavier Becerra, the Democratic front-runner in California’s 2026 gubernatorial race, has pledged to extend Governor Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on executions if elected in November. This is a marked ...
UPDATE: On September 17, 2026, the US Supreme Court denied Mr. Lee’s writ for certiorari and denied to stay his execution. Alabama carried out his execution later that evening. Alabama is scheduled to ...
A forensic DNA analyst whose trial testimony helped secure the 2002 conviction and death sentence of Ronald “Jeffery” Prible 1 has now disavowed that testimony, adding new weight to Mr. Prible’s ...
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