# US court halts execution that could make Tennessee woman’s death the first in 200 years

https://mins.news/en/item/80640

- TASS, 2026-09-30 16:25 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://tass.com/society/2195265

> A US federal court stayed the execution of 50-year-old Christa Pike just hours before it was scheduled at a maximum-security prison in Nashville. Her lawyers argued that proceedings had failed to consider sexual abuse she suffered as a child. The Tennessee Supreme Court had declined to intervene, and Governor Bill Lee rejected clemency.

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