Tennessee was about an hour from executing Christa Pike. Then a federal court stepped in
A federal appeals court halted Christa Pike's execution about an hour before it was set to begin. She would have been Tennessee's first woman executed in at least 200 years.
TL;DR
- A federal appeals court halted Christa Pike's execution.
- The halt occurred about an hour before the execution was scheduled to begin.
- Pike would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in at least 200 years.