Teen killer avoids state’s first female execution in over 200 years – for now

Convicted Tennessee killer Christa Pike has been spared at the last minute from becoming the first woman executed in the state since the early 1800s after the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay Wednesday morning.

In a 2-1 split decision, the court issued a stay “until further notice” as the court weighs motions filed by Pike’s attorneys and the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office.

The state immediately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to have the stay lifted.

Pike, 50, was 18 in 1995 when she, her boyfriend and another pal beat, kicked and stabbed their 19-year-old…