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Tennessee Department of Corrections The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for Tennessee inmate Christa Pike to be executed, overturning a last-minute reprieve. The killing by lethal injection was scheduled for Wednesday morning before judges from the Sixth Circuit Appeals court halted the execution. Tennessee's attorney general then immediately requested the Supreme Court to overrule the lower court's stay. Pike, 50, has been awaiting execution since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. If the execution proceeds, Christa Pike will be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. It was not immediately clear when the execution would take place. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted the application to vacate the stay of the execution. No explanation for lifting the stay was provided in the order. The top court's three liberal justices - Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - dissented in Wednesday evening's order. Sotomayor wrote that she dissents because the decision cleared the way for Tennessee to execute Pike before her pending legal challenges to her conviction "can be properly considered". "Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her 'fundamental interest in [her] own life," she said. In a ruling earlier on Wednesday, judges from the Sixth Circuit Appeals court paused the execution saying they needed more time to consider the arguments in Pike's case. Pike's lawyers said that for years, the state of Tennessee argued in court that she had lied about being sexually abused as a child. But at a recent hearing about her execution method, the state said it did not dispute she suffered sexual abuse and rape. Pike's legal team asked the appeals court to send her motion back to the district court, arguing that if the federal courts based their ruling on the state's earlier claim that she was lying, then the federal review was affected. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court refused to hear a different appeal from Pike. Tennessee governor also denied a clemency request this week from the death row inmate. Pike was 18 when she and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, beat, tortured and murdered Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old they met at a job training camp for troubled teens.

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中文标题： 美国最高法院允许对克里斯塔·派克执行死刑

美国最高法院撤销暂缓令，允许田纳西州处决克里斯塔·派克。第六巡回上诉法院当天早些时候暂缓执行，州总检察长请求最高法院推翻。派克因1996年谋杀科琳·斯莱默被判死刑，若执行将是田纳西200多年来首位被处决女性。卡瓦诺批准撤销暂缓，未解释；索托马约尔等三位自由派大法官异议，称应待其法律挑战审理。执行时间未立即明确。田纳西州长本周拒绝赦免。派克律师称州此前称她谎称童年遭性侵，近期听证不再争辩。

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/1 07:42:10