Christa Pike's lawyers on Saturday said that the 50-year-old convicted murderer has been discharged from the hospital and returned to prison. Pike was transported to the hospital in critical condition on September 30 after she survived Tennessee's botched effort to execute her for murdering a cl...
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday called capital punishment “inadmissible” on World Day Against the Death Penalty, amid the Pentagon’s plans to livestream the December execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan in Texas.
Diego Sanchez has been handed a month-long prison sentence for his probation violation.
Pike survived two doses of lethal-injection drugs on September 30, renewing scrutiny of capital punishment.
Ms. Pike, 50 and convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital late last month.
Pike's lawyers say she is "grateful" to the medical team who cared for her after she survived two lethal injections last month.