The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is little doubt that Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, committed such a murder. At age 18, along with ...

Only one of the 42 people on Tennessee’s death row is a woman, who is imprisoned for allegedly torturing and killing her fellow classmate in 1995. Christa Pike is scheduled to be the first female ...

In the last 50 years, the U.S. has put more than 1,600 people to death, but only about 1 percent of those executed have been women. That’s not because of lingering cultural stereotypes, but because, ...