The case of Christa Pike, the first woman due to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years
She was 18 when she killed a fellow student in 1995. Her defense has asked that her sentence be commuted to life in prison, but they are out of appeals after the Supreme Court denied a stay
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- El caso de Christa Pike, la primera mujer que será ejecutada en Tennessee en más de dos siglos elpais.com
- Are Christa Pike and Lindsay Clancy related to each other? All we know about the ‘kinship’ ahead of Tennessee execution hindustantimes.com
- Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executions aljazeera.com
