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  "id": 10972768,
  "title": "US Court stays Christa Pike execution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/us-court-stays-christa-pike-execution",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T14:56:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/30/christa-pike-set-to-become-first-woman-executed-in-tennessee-in-two-centuries_6758111_4.html"
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  "summary": "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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      {
        "outlet": "El Pais",
        "title": "El caso de Christa Pike, la primera mujer que será ejecutada en Tennessee en más de dos siglos",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/el-caso-de-christa-pike-la-primera-mujer-que-sera-ejecutada-en",
        "published": "2026-09-30T09:30:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "El Pais English",
        "title": "The case of Christa Pike, the first woman due to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/the-case-of-christa-pike-the-first-woman-due-to-be-executed-in",
        "published": "2026-09-30T13:12:41.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executions",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/christa-pike-seeks-firing-squad-not-lethal-injection-inside-us",
        "published": "2026-09-30T13:14:39.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "Christa Pike makes strange request before Tennessee execution, refuses last meal - ‘I’m only nervous about…’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/christa-pike-makes-strange-request-before-tennessee-execution-refuses",
        "published": "2026-09-30T14:17:27.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "title": "Federal appeals court stays Christa Pike execution with hours to spare",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/federal-appeals-court-stays-christa-pike-execution-with-hours-to-spare",
        "published": "2026-09-30T14:59:54.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Toronto Sun",
        "title": "Doomed teen Killer Christa Pike gets last minute stay of execution",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/doomed-teen-killer-christa-pike-gets-last-minute-stay-of-execution",
        "published": "2026-09-30T15:55:39.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CBS News",
        "title": "Tennessee court makes last minute move to temporarily halt Christa Pike's execution",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/tennessee-court-makes-last-minute-move-to-temporarily-halt-christa",
        "published": "2026-09-30T16:50:13.000Z"
      }
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  "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."
}