Christa Pike is set to be executed on September 30 in Tennessee. The 50-year-old went on death row when she was just 18, for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Now, she is set to be put to death at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Christa Pike is set to be executed for … Read more
The first woman to undergo capital punishment in Tennessee in more than 200 years made a formal request for an exclusively female observation team to be present during the execution procedure. The execution comes after US Supreme Court denied a last-minute bid to halt it. Christa Pike, sentenced to death for a murder committed at … Read more
A woman scheduled for execution in Tennessee has expressed compassion toward Lindsay Clancy, stating she experiences a profound sense of “kinship” with the Massachusetts mom who faced trial for the killing of her three children. Christa Pike Expresses Support for Lindsay Clancy Amid Trial (via REUTERS) Clancy, 36, a former labor and delivery nurse, is … Read more
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) are clashing over the latter’s recent comments on the case. Reddington blasted Mace after she called for Lindsay to be publicly executed. Kevin Reddington, Nancy Mace clash over Lindsay Clancy ‘public execution’ calls (repnancymace/Instagram, REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona, ) The Massachusetts mother faces three counts of … Read more
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) weighed in on the Lindsay Clancy case on Monday, September 15, saying the mother should be publicly executed. The Massachusetts mother faces three counts of murder in the killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson3; and Callan, 8 months. Nancy Clancy calls for public execution of Lindsay Clancy (repnancymace/Instagram, Greg Derr/Pool … Read more
A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s is scheduled Thursday to become the 15th person executed in the state this year. Florida man faces execution for 1996 killing connected to ‘Hog Trail Murders’ in woods Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., … Read more
Flordia executed two prisoners on the same day in July, while two more executions are scheduled for September (AP) Florida is set to execute on Tuesday (local time) a man convicted of murdering his estranged wife and wounding her mother, marking the state’s 13th execution of the year, with two more scheduled for September.Florida, a … Read more
The last inmate strapped to a table in Florida’s death chamber was 74 years old, making him the oldest inmate executed in the state’s modern era. The next two men to die were older. A Florida inmate scheduled to be executed in July is an 80-year-old man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 1986. … Read more