Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, was featured on Investigation Discovery's "Mean Girl Murders." What to know about her case.

Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s co-defendant confessed to coercing her into their crime. Will that be enough to stop her execution?

Christa Pike has spent nearly three decades on Tennessee’s death row — and on September 30, 2026, she came within an hour of becoming the first woman killed by the state in more than 200 years before ...

Despite her last-minute appeals for clemency and legal arguments targeting Tennessee's execution procedures, Christa Pike is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 30 after spending 30 years ...

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

Pike’s story is the story of nearly every woman on death row: They had experienced unimaginable childhood abuse, which in some cases resulted in demonstrable brain damage, were suffering untreated ...

Tennessee is on track to execute its only woman on death row, after Gov. Bill Lee on Monday declined to intervene in the case of Christa Pike, condemned for a 1995 torture killing in Knoxville. Lee ...

It is incredibly rare for a woman to be sentenced to death in the U.S., but in Tennessee, a woman is due to be executed on Wednesday for the first time in the state in 200 years. Only 18 women have ...

Alabama has 154 death row inmates, but only five are women. Here's what to know.