Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.

On 1 October, 1989, Robirds was shot in the neck before being stabbed several times. Her eldest, Chad, was found having been ...

The three men executed this week all died by lethal injection. As is so often the case, their lives were plagued by either ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 was the first in five years. A judge has temporarily called off one man's ...

A Davidson County jury sentenced him to death the following year. Some relatives of Smith’s victims do plan to attend the execution, Tennessee Department of Correction spokesperson Dorinda ...