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US Supreme Court allows Christa Gail Pike’s execution in Tennessee to go forward

US Supreme Court allows Christa Gail Pike’s execution in Tennessee to go forward
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Tennessee may proceed with the execution of Christa Gail Pike, overturning a last-minute stay that was issued by an appeals court hours earlier. Pike, 50, was scheduled to die by lethal injection in the morning for the 1995 stabbing and beating of a cl...

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