YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Tennessee woman awaits decision after execution halted at last minute
The Wednesday execution of Christa Pike, the lone woman on Tennessee's death row, has been temporarily halted. Just over an hour before the scheduled lethal injection took place, a federal appeals court issued a temporary stay. Pike was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend tortured and murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995. She was convicted and sentenced to death, while her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, received a life sentence with the possibility of parole. The call comes as Pike's legal team argues that the court never considered her past of severe mental illness and trauma stemming from childhood sexual abuse. Katelyn Quisenberry with NewsNation affiliate WKRN-TV reports. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
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