# Tennessee governor rejects Christa Pike clemency bid as execution nears

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- BBC News, 2026-09-28 22:27 UTC
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- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckr50yyddljlo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has denied death-row inmate Christa Pike’s request to commute her sentence. Pike was convicted of murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 and is scheduled for lethal injection on Wednesday. If carried out, she would be Tennessee’s first woman executed in more than 200 years. Her lawyers have petitioned the US Supreme Court for a last-minute reprieve.

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