Tennessee Unable to Carry Out Execution of Christa Gail Pike

Tennessee authorities were unable to execute Christa Gail Pike by lethal injection, hours after the US Supreme Court cleared the execution to proceed.

Correction authorities in Tennessee were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike by lethal injection, as reported by the AP news agency and The Jerusalem Post. Pike survived the first attempt to execute her.

The procedure was set to mark the first execution of a woman in Tennessee in roughly 200 years, following a ruling by the US Supreme Court that allowed the state to proceed with the penalty, as also reported by network N1.

Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate approximately three decades ago, when she was 18 years old. The reasons behind the inability to carry out the sentence and further details regarding her condition have not yet been released.