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

World | 2026-09-29 at 23:39 UTC | Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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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