Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes generated intense public backlash following an ominous social media post regarding her child’s health and safety while serving a 135-month sentence at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas. On Friday, September 25, the disgraced biotechnology executive tweeted that people had consciously chosen to put her child’s health and safety at … Read more
Christa Pike faces execution by lethal injection on September 30 at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee. United Nations human rights experts and Amnesty International have called for an immediate halt to the execution, citing her history of childhood abuse and nearly three decades on death row. Death Row Timeline and Legal Status … Read more
Christa Pike, sentenced in March 1996 as the youngest woman given the death penalty in the modern era for the torture-murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer, faces execution by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on September 30, according to court documents and state scheduling records. Governor Bill Lee holds sole clemency … Read more
Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old woman from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the January 2023 strangulation deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan. As the prosecution wrapped up its case, the defense argued that Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings, while … Read more
Thirty years after a fatal drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, the 1996 murder of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur is finally heading to trial in a Nevada court, bringing prosecutors closer to answering who orchestrated the killing of the 25-year-old superstar. From Baltimore Drama Class to Global Megastar Before his rise to global fame … Read more