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FILE-An execution room is shown at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. (Photo credit should read PAUL BUCK/AFP via Getty Images)

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row.

The State of Tennessee filed a motion on Sept. 30 to set an execution date for Pike, 49, per documents seen by Fox News Digital. She is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30, 2026.

If the execution goes ahead, Pike would become the first woman executed in Tennessee since 1820 and only the fourth in the state’s history.

Records from the Death Penalty Information Center note that Martin Eve, listed a

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