UN experts urge halt to Christa Pike execution
Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on September 30, 2026. United Nations human rights experts urged both the US federal government and the state of Tennessee to halt the execution, saying Pike has spent most of nearly three decades in solitary confinement because the state lacks a women's death row and that those conditions, combined with the long wait, amount to torture. The experts also questioned whether mitigating evidence was properly presented at sentencing; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights backed the request, while no clemency or stay had been announced.
UN experts say Pike's long solitary confinement amounts to torture.
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Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a fellow Job Corps student. UN experts recently called for a halt because she spent most of the last three decades in solitary confinement, and officials may choose clemency or court…
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