Entries tagged with “W. Mark Ward”

Aug 12, 2026

Tennessee Court Holds Multi-Day Hearing on Christa Pike’s Lethal Injection Challenge

A Knox County court is pre­sid­ing over a mul­ti-day evi­den­tiary hear­ing to deter­mine whether Tennessee’s lethal injec­tion pro­to­col can be con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly used to exe­cute Christa Pike, the only woman on the state’s death row. Ms. Pike is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed on September 30. The hear­ing, which began on August 11 and is expect­ed to last sev­er­al days, is being held by Senior Judge W. Mark Ward, who was appoint­ed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve as special…