Appeals court halts execution of Tennessee woman less than two hours before lethal injection
- Tennessee: 236 events in the last 90 days
- Tennessee: 10th Legal in the last 90 days
- Previous: 1 days earlier · Penalty tracker: Embarrassing performance Texas despite win against Tennessee
What happened
A US appeals court ordered a "short stay of execution" for death row inmate Christa Pike, less than two hours before she was scheduled to be the first woman put to death in the state in more than two centuries. The court halted the execution to give it time to consider Pike's claims that her history of severe sexual abuse had not been taken into consideration during sentencing.
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below