# Tennessee set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years

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- The Associated Press, 2026-09-28 23:00 UTC
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- Original: https://bit.ly/4ynkDu7

> Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike, marking the state’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. Pike was one of the youngest women sent to death row; she was 18 when she killed classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

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