Tenn. Gov. Lee halts state executions after Christa Pike survives 2 lethal injections

Written by on October 1, 2026

Christa Gail Pike was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years after her 1995 murder conviction, but she survived two doses of a lethal drug in what a death penalty expert called an unprecedented failure.


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