Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, media witnesses say

Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death for a 1995 murder Wednesday, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years. (AP) — Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, media witnesses say.