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Tennessee set to execute a woman for the first time in two centuries

Reuters · Daily Maverick
Published 30 Sept 2026, 9:54 pm·7 d ago·1 min read
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Death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, is due to be executed by lethal injection in Tennessee on Wednesday, becoming the first woman that state has put to death in more than two hundred years.

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