Tennessee Woman Week Away From Execution Has Death Request
Pike’s lawyers say male executioners would retraumatize her and violate the Eighth Amendment after a judge rejected her legal challenges.
- On Wednesday, September 30, Christa Pike is set to be executed by lethal injection, marking the first woman put to death in Tennessee in 200 years. Pike has requested an all-female firing squad, citing fear of a 'painful' death.
- Convicted of murdering classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995, Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 when she was 18. Investigators reported the pair carved a pentagram into Slemmer's chest, and Pike kept a piece of her victim's skull.
- Lawyer Stephen Ferrell claimed lethal injection by men 'will increase the likelihood that an 8th Amendment violation will occur.' Pike's legal team argued a rare blood disorder could make the procedure 'prolonged and agonizing.'
- After a judge rejected all her legal challenges following a three-day hearing, Pike's attorneys filed a last-minute clemency petition with Governor Bill Lee. The state maintains she failed to provide scientific evidence justifying a sentence change.
- According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 45 women were on death row as of June 24, with only 18 executed since 1976. If carried out, Pike's execution would make her the fourth woman in Tennessee history put to death.
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Christa Pike is preparing to execute in Tennessee a few days later, to be the first woman to face this fate in the state in 200 years, but she made a strange request ahead of schedule. What's her story, and why would she just want women to execute the sentence?
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Tennessee Plans All-Female Lethal Injection Team at Request of State’s First Woman Being Executed in 200 Years * The Gateway Pundit * by Cassandra MacDonald
Tennessee is preparing an all-female team to give a lethal injection to Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday, a request her lawyers made due to decades of sexual abuse and PTSD.
Lethal injection by all-female team slated for Tennessee’s 1st woman death row inmate in 200 years
Christa Pike, the first woman sentenced to death in Tennessee in 200 years, is demanding an all-female execution team -- or hanging instead -- ahead of her Sept. 30 lethal injection, citing past sexual abuse and seeking clemency for the 1995 torture-murder of Colleen Slemmer.
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