Christa Gail Pike is taking place as per the procedure. US Supreme Court has allowed Tennessee execution of Christa Gail Pike to go forward, overturning a last-minute stay. Earlier, Tennessee's execution of Christa Gail Pike for a murder she committed at age 18 was halted on Wednesday about an hour before it was set to begin, as a federal appeals court sought to review whether her allegations of childhood sexual abuse and rape were fully considered at her sentencing.
Pike, now 50, and her boyfriend were convicted of the 1995 stabbing and beating of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at a job training facility in Knoxville. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in at least 200 years.
