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 ...
Texas and Georgia are each planning to execute inmates within an hour of each other on Wednesday. Alabama is set to carry out an execution the next day.
By Steve Gorman Sept 30 (Reuters) - Death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, is ...
Christa Gail Pike is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 30 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. On Monday, Gov. Bill Lee ...
Amidst arguments over the morality of the death penalty and mistakes made in deciding who deserves punishment, some situations remind us why capital punishment retains support. Case in point: murder ...
For more than two decades, Vincent McFadden has been sitting on Missouri’s death row. He’s watched a steady stream of his friends get marched off to their executions — and he’s waiting for his own as ...
The US Supreme Court is allowing the execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay on ...
Lee Gilley fled the United States to Italy using forged documents and a fake name after allegedly killing his pregnant wife in Harris County, Texas.