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American prisoner’s last-minute request
Before her execution on September 30 in Tennessee, USA, Krista Pike requested that the execution be carried out by a team of women, due to her history of childhood sexual abuse. If executed, she would be the first woman to be put to death in Tennessee in over 200 years and the first woman in the state since 1819. Her request comes amid concerns about the presence of men during the execution affecting her mental state, as well as Tennessee's incompatibility with the method of hanging—proposed by her attorneys as an alternative to lethal injection, which is not approved in the state. The Supreme Court rejected her request for a stay of execution, while her defense continues to seek to reduce the sentence to life imprisonment, citing her psychological suffering and childhood neglect.
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