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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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Most outlets converge on the same basic frame: Christa Pike is scheduled for execution and would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in about 200 years, with several also noting her age and the 1995 killing conviction. The Hill is the only outlet here to foreground the Supreme Court’s refusal to stop the execution and to mention the governor’s clemency denial in the available extract. The Washington Post alone adds advocates’ references to abuse in Pike’s childhood, while The Independent alone highlights Pike’s comments about a “kinship” with Lindsay Clancy.
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