Christa Pike's execution can proceed, Supreme Court rules
Christa Pike is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday. If carried out, she will be the first woman executed in Tennessee since at least 1820.
A last-minute court order had temporarily halted Tennessee's plans to execute Christa Pike earlier Wednesday.
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