Special Master W. Mark Ward has denied Christa Gale Pike’s emergency motion to reopen a hearing in her challenge to Tennessee ...

Pike is scheduled to be the first woman executed in Tennessee since 1819.

If her execution happens as planned in September, Christa Pike will become the fourth woman to die at the hands of the Tennessee government in recorded history. The other three were enslaved women ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. If her execution happens as planned in September, Christa Pike will become the fourth woman to die at the hands of the ...