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Christa Pike Execution

Christa Pike, 50, convicted of murdering a classmate in Knoxville in 1995, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Tennessee on Wednesday. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee denied her clemency request on Monday. If carried out, it would be the state's first execution of a woman in about 200 years. Her lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a stay.

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