Murderer Christa Pike to be executed in Tennessee today

Death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, is due to be executed by lethal injection in Tennessee on Wednesday, becoming the first woman that state has put to death in more than two centuries. Pike, whose clemency petition highlighting childhood trauma and sexual abuse was denied by governor Bill Lee, would also be the only person in the modern era of US capital punishment to be executed in Tennessee for a crime committed as a teenager. On Tuesday, the