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Judge orders Tennessee to preserve evidence in failed execution of Christa Pike

Randy Spivey, one of Pike’s attorneys, said Pike “is angry and confused about everything right now.”

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Tennessee prepares to execute a woman for a crime she committed at age 18Tennessee is preparing to execute Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder she committed at age 18. The now 50-year-old is scheduled for lethal injection on Wednesday. If carried out, it would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years. Pike and her boyfriend were convicted of killing their classmate Colleen Slemmer. Pike was sentenced to…
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