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For the first time in more than 200 years, Tennessee is set to execute a woman
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Krista Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is set to die by lethal injection
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for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slimmer tomorrow, unless the Supreme Court halts it today. Pike was 18 at the time
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She and two other teenagers lured Slimmer into the woods in Knoxville
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where she was tortured and killed. Pike was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and
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sentenced to death. In the decades since, her attorneys have pointed to evidence of severe
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childhood abuse, sexual assault, and mental illness, arguing the jury did not hear the full
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extent of that history. They've pushed to stop her execution, but Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
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has now denied her request for clemency. Pike still has an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court
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Unless the court intervenes, she will be executed tomorrow morning
