Tennessee halted the planned execution of Christa Gail Pike about an hour before it was scheduled after a federal appeals court agreed to review claims about her history of childhood sexual abuse and rape.

Pike, now 50, was convicted of killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 when Pike was 18, along with her then-boyfriend.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay in a 2-1 decision, while Tennessee’s attorney general immediately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

If carried out, Pike’s execution would have been the first execution of a woman in Tennessee in at least 200 years, the AP has reported.

The case originally drew national attention because of the brutal nature of Slemmer’s killing and a pentagram carved into her body, which fueled fears surrounding the Satanic panic of the 1980s and 1990s.