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  • Emergency motion challenging execution of Christa Gail Pike, only woman on Tennessee’s death row, denied

    08/22/2026 1:56:23 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 37 replies
    WVLT ^ | August 21, 2026 | Camruinn Morgan-Rumsey
    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Special Master W. Mark Ward has denied Christa Gail Pike’s emergency motion to reopen a hearing in her challenge to Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol. It’s an update the legal team for the only woman on Tennessee’s death row is calling disappointing. Pike and her representatives had tried to argue that the physician involved in Tony Carruthers’ botched May execution isn’t fit to play a part in Pike’s, something Ward said isn’t set in stone. “We are deeply disappointed in the Special Master’s denial of our emergency motion to reopen Christa Pike’s hearing to address the qualifications...