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Christa Pike execution halted by appeals court before lethal injection
The execution of Christa Pike, who would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years, was halted less than an hour before it was set to occur.
Court halts execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike
A federal appeals court temporarily halted the execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee's only female death row inmate, to review her trauma claims.