The Execution That Will Make History: After Three Decades on Death Row, Tennessee Prepares to Execute Its First Woman in Two Centuries

are exceptionally rare in the United States. While the machinery of the death penalty has turned consistently for men, women on death row exist in a strange, isolated space, making Pike’s case a rare and closely watched outlier that forces us to grapple with the complexities of sentencing, gender, and the passage of time.

In the decades since her conviction,continue reading …