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Final Days: Time Running Out for Christa Pike Ahead of Sept. 30 Execution
Her lawyers say severe childhood abuse, bipolar disorder and a rare blood disorder make lethal injection prolonged and agonizing.
- Pike faces execution in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 30, marking the first woman put to death in the state since 1819 if Governor Bill Lee does not grant clemency before 10am.
- In 1995, Pike and Tadaryl Shipp murdered Colleen Slemmer at the Job Corps Centre in Knoxville, Tennessee, after Pike lied about a trip to a Blockbuster store before the attack.
- Lawyers filed a clemency petition citing Pike's 'almost unbearably abusive background,' bipolar diagnosis, and 30 years in solitary confinement as reasons to spare her from execution.
- Pike's lawyer, Stephen Ferrell, argues that lethal injection could be 'prolonged and agonising' due to a rare blood disorder that complicates vein access and drug reaction.
- While Pike was 18 at the time of the crime, Tadaryl Shipp was 17, and under Tennessee law, he was ineligible for the death penalty, creating a legal disparity.
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- 37% of the sources are Center, 37% of the sources lean Right
37% Right
L 26%
C 37%
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