Only woman on death row in Tennessee files challenge to execution protocol

The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol.

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Christa Gail Pike filed suit in Davidson County Chancery Court on Jan. 8. Pike, 49, has been on death row since 1996. She contends that the new execution protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S. and Tennessee constitutions, in part because of Pike’s “unique medical conditions.”…

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