Christa Pike to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years – but her defence say she’s a victim too

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Pressivio’s World desk has added the source report “Christa Pike to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years – but her defence say she's a victim too” to its international monitoring stream.

Lawyers for Pike, who killed a fellow student in 1995, say she should get clemency and would not be sentenced to death if the crime happened today.