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Christa Pike’s execution halted by appeals court an hour before it was set to take place
Pike, now 50, was scheduled to be executed Wednesday morning by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville
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Supreme Court declines Christa Pike's clemency appeal, with Tennessee set to execute first woman in 200 years
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stop the execution of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted in the 1995 murder of a teenage classmate, clearing the way for the state's first execution of a woman in 200 years. Christa Pike, 50, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 10 a.m.
Christa Pike is about to be executed. What did she do? | BBC News
Christa Pike was 20 when she became the youngest woman on death row in the US. Now, 30 years later she’s facing her execution date this week. She would be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in nearly 200 years. Pike was one of two people convicted of brutally beating, torturing and murdering
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