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

Some incidents are so disturbing that time doesn’t dull their impact. This is one of them. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly ...

Christa Gail Pike has been on death row since 1996. She murdered a woman in Knoxville with the help of her then-boyfriend.

Christa Gail Pike was convicted of hitting Slemmer on the head with a chunk of asphalt, killing her. Prosecutors said she ...

Brenda Andrew, the only woman on death row in Oklahoma, has lost her appeal after two decades of contesting her conviction ...

Brenda Andrew got a second chance on her appeal after U.S. Supreme Court ordered review of her claims. She now can go back to the high court.

Gloria Rubac remembers the thick crowd, primarily composed of students from Sam Houston State University, and the way they cheered outside the red-brick Texas State Penitentiary as the sun set. Having ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...