田纳西州联邦上诉法院在周三上午叫停了对Christa Pike的致命注射执行，距离原定于美国东部时间上午11点的执行时间仅一小时。1这将是田纳西州200年来首次对女性的死刑执行。12
Pike现年50岁，30年前在她18岁时因谋杀罪被定罪。1她与当时17岁的男友共同杀害了他们在诺克斯维尔职业学校的19岁同学Colleen Slemmer。1州长和田纳西州最高法院此前均拒绝了对她的赦免请求。1
在法院介入之前，美国最高法院已驳回了执行的暂停申请。2Pike曾要求以枪决而非注射死亡的方式执行。2
A federal appeals court halted the execution of Christa Pike on Wednesday morning, stopping the lethal injection scheduled for 11 a.m. Eastern Time just one hour before it was set to begin. 1 Pike, now 50 years old, was convicted of murder 30 years ago when she was 18 and, alongside her 17-year-old boyfriend, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at the Knoxville Job Corps in 1995. 1 The execution would have marked the first time Tennessee carried out a death sentence on a woman in 200 years. 12
Pike's last-minute reprieve came after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her appeal, 2 though the federal court's intervention prevented the state from proceeding. 1 Both the Tennessee governor and state Supreme Court had previously denied Pike's requests for clemency. 1 Pike had sought to be executed by firing squad rather than lethal injection. 2
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