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Tennessee court sets execution date for the state’s only woman on death row and 3 male inmates

Christa Gail Pike will be the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years for a 1995 murder linked to a personal dispute, court records show.

  • The Tennessee Supreme Court has set 2026 execution dates for Tony Carruthers, Anthony Hines, Christa Pike, and Gary Sutton.
  • Pike, 49, was the only woman sentenced to death for brutally killing a fellow teenager in 1995 at age 18.
  • Sutton, 60, was sentenced to death for the 1992 murders of siblings Tommy Griffin and Connie Branam in Blount County, Tennessee.
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Tennessee court sets execution date for the state's only woman on death row and 3 male inmates

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row.

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WBIR broke the news in on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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