Emily Cochrane

Why Are Food Prices So High? Ask the Farmers Market Vendors. Farmers markets cut out a lot of middlemen, from shippers to grocery store managers. One Nashville market shows how farmers are getting squeezed — and why prices may keep going up. To get a sens... See more

The emergency response to Christa Pike's botched execution last month was delayed by about half an hour, because of confusion over the authenticity of the 911 call, according to dispatch and radio calls released on Monday. The first 911 call for an ambula... See more

By EMILY COCHRANE Last year, Tennessee's lethal injection execution protocol underwent a striking transformation. The manual laying out the procedure was slashed in half, stripped down from 104 pages in a previous version to 44 pages. Details about certai... See more

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Last year, Tennessee's lethal injection execution protocol underwent a striking transformation. The manual laying out the procedure was slashed in half, stripped down from 104 pages in a previous version to 44 pages. Details about cert... See more

Pike has spent three decades in the prison, largely in isolation, for the 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer, 19, a classmate in Knoxville, Tennessee. On Sept. 30, she survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital, the second time this year that Te... See more