Tennessee schedules executions for four inmates, including first woman in over 200 years
Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is scheduled for execution in 2026 for her brutal 1995 murder of a teenage girl, marking the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years. Pike was convicted of first-degree murder after a violent attack motivated by a romantic rivalry, and her case highlights the rarity of female executions in the U.S., with only 18 women executed since 1976.