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US Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike to go ahead
The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for death row inmate Christa Pike to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than
Summary
Tennessee's attorney general had asked the Supreme Court to overrule the lower court. Pike's lawyers said that for years, the state of Tennessee had argued in court that she lied about being sexually abused as a child. That's about 1% of all US executions.
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People
- Christa Pike3
- Shadolla Peterson2
- Colleen Slemmer2
- Tadaryl Shipp2
- Bill Lee2
- Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Colleen Slemmer.She
- Tadaryl Shipp.Pike
Organisations
- Supreme Court of Sri Lanka3
- US Supreme Court2
- US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Tennessee Department of Corrections.Pike
- Tennessee Department of Correction.In
- Associated Press news agency
- Tennessee Supreme Court
- U.S. Supreme Court
Places
- United States3
- Tennessee3
- Nashville
- Tenne
Keywords
- first2
- woman2
- time2
- centuries
- execution
- america
- execute
- penalty
- allows
- ahead
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Death penalty for a woman in America for the first time in 200 yearsGossip Lanka News English
Tennessee due to execute woman for first time in two centuriesHiru News - English