Overview

• Pike, 49, is ordered to be executed by September 30, 2026 unless another court intervenes.
• If carried out, she would be Tennessee’s first woman executed since 1819 and the first person executed for a crime committed at age 18 since 1972.
• The court also set execution dates for Tony Carruthers, Gary Sutton, and Anthony Hines, while Harold Nichols remains set under an earlier order and Donald Middlebrooks has a stay tied to a federal protocol case.
• Pike’s attorneys sought commutation based on her youth, severe mental illness, and a history of abuse, but the request was rejected in the court’s order.
• Tennessee resumed executions in May after a three-year pause prompted by failures to properly test lethal-injection drugs, with an independent review finding drugs since 2018 were not fully tested and the state attorney general acknowledging incorrect testimony by officials.