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SocietyUS Supreme Court rejects Christa Pike’s last-ditch bid to halt execution

The US Supreme Court has refused to stop Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike’s scheduled lethal injection. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for murdering teenage classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995. If carried out, she would be Tennessee’s first woman executed in more than 200 years.

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BBBC News★★★☆☆2026-09-29 23:39Original

US Supreme Court rejects Christa Pike’s last-ditch bid to halt execution
US Supreme Court rejects Christa Pike’s last-ditch bid to halt executionSociety