Tennessee governor declines to halt execution of state’s lone woman on death row

September 29, 2026 · 2:36 am 3 sources

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• Tennessee governor declines to halt execution of state's lone woman on death row
  BBC News · September 29, 2026 02:36
  If the execution proceeds, Pike would be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
• Utah death-row prisoner released after new DNA analysis of 1985 killing
  The Guardian · September 29, 2026 20:12
  Douglas Carter, 71, who has spent more than four decades on death row, released on bail until new trial begins A Utah man who has spent more than four decades on death row was released from jail after newly analyzed DNA evidence showed that he was not connected to a 1985 homicide. Douglas Stewart…
• US Supreme Court denies Christa Pike's last-ditch bid to halt execution
  BBC News · September 29, 2026 23:39
  The Tennessee inmate has been awaiting execution since she was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a teenage classmate.