Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
Tennessee is preparing to execute Christa Pike, who was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder. Pike's attorneys are challenging the sentence, while the state moves forward with the rare execution of a female inmate.
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death for a 1995 murder Wednesday, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years.
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