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US Supreme Court denies Christa Pike's last-ditch bid to halt execution
The Tennessee inmate has been awaiting execution since she was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a teenage classmate.
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If the execution proceeds, Christa Pike would be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years
The US Supreme Court has declined to stop the execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike on the eve of the date appointed for her death by lethal injection.
Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a teenage classmate.
Pike was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend beat, tortured and murdered Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old they met at a job training camp for troubled teens.