{"id":720,"date":"2025-12-26T03:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=720"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:34:23","slug":"us-state-set-to-execute-first-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"US state set to execute first woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"304\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"17\">Case Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"304\">Tennessee may carry out its first execution of a woman in over 200 years<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"304\">after the state Supreme Court approved moving forward with the death sentence of Christa Gail Pike.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"304\">She is the only woman on the state\u2019s death row and was convicted of \u201cone of the state\u2019s most infamous murders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"604\"><strong data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"330\">Crime and Conviction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"604\">Pike was 18 when she killed fellow student Colleen Slemmer in 1995 near the University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"604\">Prosecutors said jealousy motivated the crime.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"604\">She was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to death,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"604\">while her co-defendants received lesser sentences.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"824\"><strong data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"630\">Appeals and Sentence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"824\">After decades of appeals, the state requested an execution date, \u201cnow set for September 30, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"824\">Pike later received an additional prison sentence for a separate assault while incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"1005\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"844\">Ongoing Debate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"1005\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Her lawyers cite her youth, trauma, and mental illness in opposing execution.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"1005\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">If carried out, it would be Tennessee\u2019s first execution of a woman \u201csince 1820.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case Overview Tennessee may carry out its first execution of a woman in over 200 years after the state Supreme Court approved moving forward with the death sentence of Christa Gail Pike. 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