If her execution happens as planned in September, Christa Pike will become the fourth woman to die at the hands of the Tennessee government in recorded history. The other three were enslaved women ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple's 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, the seventh person executed by the state ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF/AP) — Early Wednesday, the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas woman convicted of murdering a pregnant Missouri woman and cutting her baby from her womb.

Over 40 years after Patty Gifford vanished, her family sees justice in Dennis Socher's execution, but their search for her remains goes on.

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. If her execution happens as planned in September, Christa Pike will become the fourth woman to die at the hands of the ...