The request came after threats targeting Natrone Kakaris' attorneys, as well as a potential witness, and after Kakaris was ...

Jurors weighing the death penalty for Alberto Sierra heard first responders describe finding his wife and two stepdaughters ...

Since 1976, the United States has executed 1,682 people. More than a third of them — 602 — were executed in a single state: Texas. The U.S. is a country that imposes the death penalty in 27 states and ...

Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the ...

Silva, 21, is charged in the Sept. 26 shooting deaths of his parents and sister at their family home in southeast Wichita.

Jurors deciding whether Alberto Sierra should receive the death penalty heard testimony from first responders who described ...

Prosecutors agreed on Tuesday to let the man out of jail in 10 years due to errors at his 2021 trial in Cumberland County.

The only woman on Tennessee's death row is scheduled to become the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years. Here's what we know so far.

Alberto Sierra, 42, pleaded guilty in August to three counts of first-degree murder and other charges in the deaths of Gladys ...

Gilley, accused of killing his pregnant wife, fled to Italy using forged documents and a fake name before his trial ...

Christa Pike has spent nearly three decades on Tennessee’s death row — and on September 30, 2026, she came within an hour of becoming the first woman killed by the state in more than 200 years before ...

Christa Pike was set to be executed on Wednesday at 10 a.m. CT.