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

Christa Pike is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Wednesday. If carried out, it would be the state's first execution of a woman in 200 years. Pike, now 50, was 18 when she killed her 19-year-old classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in Knoxville in 1995.

According to The Guardian US, Pike and her boyfriend were convicted of torturing and killing Slemmer, with prosecutors saying Pike was motivated by jealousy as she feared Slemmer was a romantic rival. Pike was one of the youngest women to be sent to death row.

Pike's lawyers have asked the supreme court to grant a stay of execution. Her scheduled execution has put focus on her accomplices and their current whereabouts, with Hindustan Times - World News reporting that attention is on those involved in the crime.

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