Execution of US murderer Christa Pike halted an hour before it was due to happen

Source: BBC

Tennessee inmate Christa Pike has been given a stay of execution shortly before she was scheduled to receive a lethal injection. 

Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a teenage classmate. 

The federal appeals court ruling on Wednesday comes after the US Supreme Court denied a reprieve and the Tennessee governor declined to grant Pike’s request for clemency earlier this week.

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