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Tennessee To Carry Out First Female Execution In Over 200 Years

If carried out, Pike would become the first woman executed in Tennessee since the early 1800s and only the 19th woman executed in the United States in the modern era.

International Business Times · Oct 3, 2025

Indiana shrouds executions in secrecy, defying long tradition of public oversight

Executions have historically been carried out with at least some public scrutiny, from public hangings in the town square to lethal injections in prisons witnessed by journalists

The Independent UK · Dec 18, 2024

Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty

Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in history

The Guardian - US · Apr 13, 2024

2022 Was a Year of Bad, Botched Death Row Executions

Fortunately, government kills fewer prisoners each year.

Reason · Dec 28, 2022

US ‘botched’ executions reach all-time high, report finds

Seven of 20 attempted executions in 2022 were ‘visibly problematic’, research group says, but practice is in decline.

Al Jazeera · Dec 16, 2022

‘Surreal spectacle’: US botched 35% of execution attempts this year

Annual review reveals that 35% of the 20 execution attempts carried out this year were visibly problematic

The Guardian - US · Dec 16, 2022