US Court stays Christa Pike execution
In 1995, the American woman was convicted of torturing and murdering her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in Knoxville when she was 18. After spending 30 years on death row, she was scheduled to be killed by pentobarbital injection on Wednesday.
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