Christa Pike, who has been on death row for the better part of three decades after being convicted of torturing and killing a classmate at age 18, attends a court hearing via a video link as her lawyers mount a last round of appeals on her behalf, in Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 11, 2026. Tennessee has called off another planned execution in 2026 and will review the way it puts prisoners to death after Pike survived two doses of a lethal drug in the state’s second botched attempt at capital…
