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Federal court halts execution of Christa Pike in 11th hour
A federal court has halted the execution of Christa Pike, a Tennessee woman on death row, at the last minute. Pike is the only woman on death row in Tennessee and was convicted for the 1995 murder of a fellow Job Corps student. Further details of the court's reasoning were not immediately available.
Why now: A federal court's last-minute intervention in the scheduled execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is a significant and unusual legal development.
Christa PikeEleventh CircuitTennessee
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