It took Christa Pike nearly a week to regain consciousness after the Tennessee Department of Corrections failed to kill her ...

Emergency vehicles at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. The execution of death row ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee did not heed those warnings. Now, the defining image of the death penalty in 2026 is a woman strapped ...

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A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the 30th person executed ...

It’s the most error-prone method of execution and has gone wrong several times this year. Christa Pike’s case was the latest.

A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk in 2000 has been executed, a week after a failed lethal injection in ...

Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.

Spinal anesthesia is one of the most dependable tools in modern operating rooms. A single injection of local anesthetic into the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the spinal cord can render a patient ...

Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her via lethal injection on Wednesday, but her medical and legal future ...

For the tiniest patients in the neonatal intensive care unit, even a procedure that lasts only minutes can set off a cascade ...

A Tennessee anesthesiologist is weighing in on what may have gone wrong during the botched execution of Christa Pike.