A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

A Nashville judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to allow reporters to witness the full execution of ...

Four executions have been set this year by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which includes the only woman on the state's death ...

A judge has ruled that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions ...

TEGNA Inc., WBIR's parent company, was among the plaintiffs that filed suit via the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the ...

Christa Pike, A Tennessee woman on death row, sues state claiming lethal injection protocol would cause cruel death due to ...

Christa Gail Pike argued in her filing that the new protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and killing of Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at a Knoxville job program ...

Christa Pike is suing the state to halt her execution, arguing Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would constitute cruel ...