US to execute woman for 1995 murder after S’Court rejects appeal
The US Supreme Court has rejected a final appeal from Christa Pike, clearing the way for her execution in Tennessee for a 1995 murder. Read More: https://punchng.com/us-to-execute-woman-for-1995-murder-after-scourt-rejects-appeal/
The Supreme Court of the United States has denied a last-minute attempt to stop the execution of Christa Pike, a 50-year-old woman on death row in Tennessee. Pike is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday at 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT) at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee. The murder for which she is being executed occurred in 1995 and involved the brutal killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer by Pike and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp.
Pike, who was 18 at the time of the crime, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996. Her lawyers had petitioned the Supreme Court for a last-minute reprieve, citing Pike's age and a history of childhood trauma and mental illness as factors that should have influenced her sentence. However, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee rejected her clemency request on Monday, upholding the death sentence.
If the execution proceeds, it would mark the first execution of a woman in Tennessee in over 200 years.
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