Tennessee To Break 200 Year Streak By Executing The Only Woman On Death Row For A Crime That Shook The Nation

The machinery of capital punishment in Tennessee is grinding toward a historic and grim milestone as the state prepares to execute a woman for the first time in over two centuries. The Tennessee Supreme Court has cleared the path for the death sentence of Christa Gail Pike, a woman whose name has become synonymous with one of the most chilling acts of violence in the state’s modern history. At forty-nine years old, Pike remains the sole female occupant of Tennessee’s death row, a position she has held for nearly three decades following a crime so brutal and calculated that it continues to haunt the Knoxville community where it occurred….