Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to executing death row inmates, pentobarbital is the drug of choice for more than a dozen states and the federal ...

When it comes to executing death row inmates, pentobarbital is the drug of choice for more than a dozen states and the federal government. It has been used to kill more than 100 murderers in the U.S.

Although lethal injection is considered the most humane form of capital punishment, it's also the method most prone to failure. On September 30, the state of Tennessee failed to execute prisoner ...

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Gail Pike was convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Provided by Christa Gail Pike's USA TODAY Network, Reuters When it comes to executing ...

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Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, remains "critically ill," unconscious and on a ventilator in a hospital, two days after a botched execution attempt, her attorneys said Friday.

Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy had been fielding media requests all day. In between phone calls, on Oct. 1, she was praying for Christa Pike. Ms. Vaillancourt Murphy is the executive director of ...

Tennessee was poised to mark a grim milestone on Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike, a 50-year-old death-row inmate convicted of murder in 1996 who ...

I understand the shock over the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike in Tennessee. She survived what should have been a lethal dose of pentobarbital, her lawyer confirmed on Oct. 1, ...

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, received two doses of a lethal drug in a Nashville execution chamber Wednesday night. But she didn't die. Although her survival was "unparalleled ...