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 ...
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Woman convicted in 1995 Knoxville murder sues state over execution protocol

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Christa Gail Pike — who was sentenced to death as a teen for the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old ...
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Tennessee woman on death row for ‘exceptionally violent’ crime says she shouldn’t be executed – “I’m only…”

Some incidents are so disturbing that time doesn’t dull their impact. This is one of them. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly three decades on death row in Tennessee. She was just 20 years old when a ...
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Tennessee’s only woman on death row files lawsuit alleging execution method violates rights, religious beliefs

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, has filed a lawsuit against the state alleging lethal injection violates her rights and religious beliefs. Pike ...
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Only woman on death row in Tennessee files challenge to execution protocol

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...
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Execution date set for Christa Pike, convicted of brutal stabbing murder in Knoxville

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The State of Tennessee has set the execution date for Christa Pike, who was convicted of brutally stabbing and killing a fellow Knoxville Job Corps worker in 1995. According ...
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Christa Pike Files Legal Challenge to Execution Protocol

The suit, filed on Jan. 8, argues that the new protocol — it relies on a single drug, pentobarbital, to induce respiratory and cardiac arrest, instead of the three-drug cocktail Tennessee used for ...