Tennessee plans rare execution of a woman. She's fighting back.

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one so young.

Tennessee set to execute woman for first time in over 200 years

If Christa Pike's execution is carried out, she would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and the 19th ...
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Tennessee court sets execution date for the state's only woman on death row and 3 male inmates

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age ...
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Attorney says electrocardiogram at Tennessee execution was active after inmate was pronounced dead

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black ...
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Tennessee’s First Execution Since 2009 Handled Professionally, Officials Say

Gov. Bill Haslam says corrections officials have told him Tennessee’s first execution since 2009 was handled in a “very professional manner.” Haslam told reporters Tuesday that state corrections ...
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Tennessee executes Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for killing college student in 1988

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State ...