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Politics● LowSep 29 · Sep 29, 2026, 11:39 PM

US Supreme Court denies Christa Pike's last-ditch bid to halt execution

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The Tennessee inmate has been awaiting execution since she was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a teenage classmate.

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