US Supreme Court clears way for Tennessee execution of Christa Pike
The court vacated a last-minute stay issued earlier in the day by a federal appeals court.
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The US Supreme Court is allowing Tennessee's first execution of a woman in 200 years to go forward, vacating a last-minute stay issued by a lower court earlier on Wednesday.
Christa Pike, convicted of murder 30 years ago and sentenced to death over a 1995 killing, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday morning before a federal appeals court halted the execution hours earlier. In a 2-1 ruling, that court said the delay was needed to assess whether Pike's allegations of childhood sexual abuse were fully considered at her sentencing.
The state governor and the state supreme court had earlier refused calls for clemency.
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