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Christa Pike Status Hearing Pike's Attorneys Asking Court to Preserve Evidence From Last Week's Failed Execution

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Christa Pike has been on Tennessee's death row since 1996 — nearly 30 years.

Topic poll · all networksWho should pay for Tennessee's botched execution lawsuit?

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  • Halt executions, end the costs 0%

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Topic poll · all networksAfter a failed execution, should the state try again?

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Topic poll · all networksShould courts prioritize docs or collection in death row cases?

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Christina Pike was convicted of murdering her husband in 2019.

A Sullivan County jury found Pike guilty of first-degree murder in the death of James Pike. She was sentenced to death, making her one of only a handful of women on Tennessee's death row awaiting execution.

Christa Pike was 18 when sentenced — youngest woman on U.S. death row

Pike was convicted in 1995 for murdering a fellow student at UT Knoxville. She remains the youngest woman ever sentenced to death in the U.S. Read more at Wikipedia

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