Christa Pike granted keep of execution

Tennessee inmate Christa Pike has been given a keep of execution shortly earlier than she was scheduled to obtain a deadly injection on Wednesday.

Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to loss of life in 1996 for the homicide of a teenage classmate.

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