Tennessee Plans All-Female Lethal Injection Team at Request of State’s First Woman Being Executed in 200 Years
Tennessee is preparing an all-female team to give a lethal injection to Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday, a request her lawyers made due to decades of sexual abuse and PTSD. Pike, 50, is the only woman on the state’s death row. The sentence is scheduled to be carried out at 10 a.m. at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, if it goes as planned, she