# Tennessee fails to carry out Christa Pike’s execution by lethal injection

https://mins.news/en/video/81555

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-01 08:48 UTC
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- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZbYSsqkM7c

> Tennessee officials were unable to execute Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday for a 1995 murder, media witnesses said. The lethal injection was halted for hours while courts considered a last-minute appeal, in what would have been the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years.

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