Tennessee halts Christa Pike execution as court reviews abuse claims Christa Gail Pike, now 50, and her boyfriend were convicted of stabbing and beating 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at a job training facility in Knoxville in 1995. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Tennessee halts Christa Pike execution as court reviews abuse claimsS1

• Christa Gail Pike, now 50, and her boyfriend were convicted of stabbing and beating 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at a job training facility in Knoxville in 1995.S2

• A federal appeals court halted the execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike about an hour before it was set to begin Wednesday.S3

• Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.S4