5 articles from The Guardian World, BBC News, NBC News, CBS News.
Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, set to be executed Wednesday night after justices lift lower-court ruling Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years on Wednesday, after the US supreme court lifted a lower-court ruling that put her execution on…
The death by lethal injection was scheduled to happen earlier on Wednesday before a lower court paused the execution.
The Supreme Court has allowed the Tennessee execution of Christa Pike for the murder of her classmate when she was 18-years-old. This comes shortly after a federal court halted the execution just before it was scheduled. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch has the latest.
A last-minute court order had temporarily halted Tennessee's plans to execute Christa Pike earlier Wednesday.
The Supreme Court has vacated a lower court's order and cleared the way for Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike. Pike would be the only woman executed in Tennessee in the last 200 years. CBS News' Skyler Henry reports.
