Appeals court halts Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in two centuries

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday halted the execution of death row inmate Christa Pike in Tennessee, less than two hours before she was scheduled to become the first woman that state has put to death in more than two hundred years. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered…

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