Christa Pike's execution, halted at the last minute by a Tennessee appeals court
The woman was convicted of murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995, when she was 18 years old.
A federal appeals court has halted the execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee with just one hour to spare. If carried out, Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in the state in over two centuries.
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