It took 30 years for Christa Pike’s sentence to be set in motion. Thirty years of agony for the family of the teenage student she’d killed in a crime still embedded in public consciousness as one so horrific it defied comprehension.
It should have taken just a few minutes for Pike’s life to have been ended, by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville – making her the first woman to be executed in the state of Tennessee for more than 200 years.
Instead, today the 50-year-old murderer holds another place in the annals of legal history as the
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