{
  "id": 10620963,
  "title": "Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/tennessee-is-set-to-execute-a-woman-for-the-first-time-in-200-years",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T05:59:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR",
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    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/09/29/g-s1-145408/tennessee-woman-execution"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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.\n\nAccording 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.\n\nPike'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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Who is Christa Pike? First Tennessee woman to face death in 200 years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/who-is-christa-pike-first-tennessee-woman-to-face-death-in-200-years",
        "published": "2026-09-28T16:54:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/tennessee-is-set-to-execute-a-woman-for-the-first-time-in-200-years-10506751",
        "published": "2026-09-28T18:30:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/tennessee-is-set-to-execute-a-woman-for-the-first-time-in-200-years",
        "published": "2026-09-28T18:30:47.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}