The state of Tennessee may soon carry out its first execution of a woman in more than 200 years after the Tennessee Supreme Court approved moving forward with the death sentence of Christa Gail Pike. Now 49, Pike is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. She was just 18 when she committed one of the state’s most shocking crimes in 1995 — a case that continues to raise legal, moral, and emotional questions decades later. If carried out, it would mark the first execution of a woman in Tennessee since 1820. On January 12, 1995, Pike and two fellow...
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