US Supreme Court denies Christa Pike's final appeal to stop execution

US Supreme Court denies Christa Pike's final appeal to stop execution

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The US Supreme Court has refused to halt the execution of Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate sentenced to death in 1996 for murdering a teenage classmate. This decision ends her last attempt to avoid execution after more than two decades on death row.

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