Articles tagged "death row"

Christa Pike's Health Improves Sharply After Botched Execution Attempt in Tennessee

Lawyers for Christa Pike, a Tennessee death row inmate, say she has made a "profound" recovery after last week's botched execution attempt.

2 min read BBC US

World Oct 9

Curtis Flowers, Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years, Dies at 56

Flowers spent 23 years on Mississippi's death row before prosecutors dropped charges in 2019. His case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection after a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

2 min read CBS News

World Oct 2

Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Survives Two-Drug Execution Attempt, Taken to Hospital

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, was taken to a hospital Thursday after prison officials failed to execute her with a two-drug lethal injection protocol. Her legal team filed an emergency motion to halt the execution mid-procedure.

2 min read BBC US

World Sep 29

Utah Man Freed on Bail After 41 Years on Death Row as New DNA Evidence Emerges

Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, walked out of a Utah jail Monday after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence does not link him to the 1985 murder that sent him to death row.

2 min read BBC US