美国最高法院拒绝了田纳西州死刑犯克里斯塔·派克要求暂停执行死刑的请愿1。50岁的派克因1996年谋杀19岁青少年同学被判死刑1，定于周三上午11时（格林威治时间下午3时）在纳什维尔河弯最高安全监狱接受注射死刑1。此举将使派克成为田纳西州200多年来首位被执行的女性死刑犯1。
派克的律师曾以"18岁的大脑不是成人大脑"为由，反对对少年时期犯罪者判处死刑1。田纳西州州长比尔·李在周一拒绝了派克的赦免请求1。数据显示，自1970年代以来，美国共有18名女性被执行，而同期被执行的男性达1,663名1。
The US Supreme Court has rejected a petition from Christa Pike seeking to halt her execution, clearing the way for the death penalty to proceed 1. Pike, 50, was convicted of murdering a 19-year-old classmate in 1996 and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday morning at 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT) at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville 1. She will become the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years 1. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee denied Pike's clemency request on Monday 1.
Pike's legal team had argued that an 18-year-old brain is not a fully developed adult brain, contending that imposing the death penalty for crimes committed as a juvenile violates constitutional protections 1. The case reflects the rarity of capital punishment for women in the United States, where only 18 women have been executed since the 1970s, compared to 1,663 men 1.
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