Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright's new book, 'Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row,' offers ...

Pike, then 18 years old, killed her Job Corps colleague Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Prosecutors say Pike and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, tortured Slemmer, including cutting a pentagram into her ...

Pike says Lindsay Clancy's situation reflects issues she believes women have long struggled to have understood in court.  The comparison comes as Clancy's case ended in a mistrial and Pike prepares to ...

A female Tennessee death row inmate has asked that she be killed by an all-female execution squad after she was convicted for ...

A failed execution in Tennessee has renewed attention on women on death row. Here are the women on North Carolina’s death row.

Ms. Andrew is just one of dozens of women awaiting execution across the United States who were subjected to prosecutorial ...

A Tennessee woman set to become the first female executed in the state in over 200 years on Wednesday has refused her last meal. Christa Pike, 50, was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year ...

It's been a long 30-year wait, but the day has almost arrived. Next week, May Martinez plans to sit in the front row of a Tennessee execution chamber, clutching a picture of her late daughter as she ...

Women account for only 1% of all executions in the U.S., but experts say they face unique challenges in the legal system.