US Supreme Court rejects Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike's execution stay

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The US Supreme Court has denied a last-minute appeal by Tennessee inmate Christa Pike to halt her execution. Pike has been on death row since 1996, when she was sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage classmate. Her bid to stop the execution represents a final legal effort to avoid the sentence handed down nearly three decades ago. The court's rejection clears the way for her execution to proceed as scheduled.

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