Christa Gail Pike argued in her filing that the new protocol, which relies on one drug instead of three, violates the U.S. and Tennessee constitutions.
Disclaimer: The article has mentions of killing. Christa Gail Pike has spent nearly three decades on death row in Tennessee.
Christa Pike, A Tennessee woman on death row, sues state claiming lethal injection protocol would cause cruel death due to ...
Four executions have been set this year by the Tennessee Supreme Court, which includes the only woman on the state's death row.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...