Christa Pike, 50, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday in Tennessee for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18. If carried out, she would be the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. Her lawyers have filed a clemency petition, arguing that her history of severe childhood abuse and mental illness would not result in a death sentence today.
Tennessee Set to Execute First Woman in 200 Years
Source: BBC