US Supreme Court allows Christa Gail Pike’s execution in Tennessee to go forward
The high court reversed a last-minute stay after Tennessee said the delay would burden the victim’s family and prolong decades of appeals.
- On Wednesday, September 30, 2026, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay of execution for death row inmate Christa Pike, halting her lethal injection scheduled at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution just hours before the procedure.
- Pike, now 50, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer after luring her into a wooded area with then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp near the Knoxville Job Corps Center.
- The appeals court granted the stay to evaluate legal arguments that courts failed to adequately consider Pike's history of childhood sexual abuse and trauma during her original sentencing proceedings.
- Tennessee's attorney general immediately asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate the stay, while May Martinez, Slemmer's mother, expressed her desire to see the sentence carried out after waiting decades.
- Had the execution proceeded, Pike would have become the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than 200 years; she remains incarcerated on death row while the legal case moves forward.
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BTAn appeals court on Wednesday stayed the execution of Christa Pike. The stay has now been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Christa Pike was to be executed. It was stopped at the last minute. Shortly afterwards, the news came that the Supreme Court had given the green light to the execution, writes NBC News.
نُشر هذا المقاعل ولاً عبر Cedarnews.net. To follow more of the exclusive news and reports, visit our website. The US Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a decision by a federal appeals court in the case of 50-year-old Christa Pike. And with that, the state of Tennessee can move forward. تم نشر هذا الخبر عبر site Cedarnews الشبابري. To see more breaking news and exclusive reports, visit our official website.
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