Christa Pike execution: Tennessee governor rejects plea for clemency
- "After deliberate consideration of Christa Gail Pike's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and do not plan to intervene," Governor Lee said in a statement.
- Pike's legal team had filed the clemency petition earlier this month, requesting that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison.
- Moving ahead with Pike's execution puts Tennessee "on singular footing", her attorneys said, as she would be the first person the state "executes in the modern death penalty era who was a teenager at the time of the offence".
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- "After deliberate consideration of Christa Gail Pike's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and do not plan to intervene," Governor Lee said in a statement.
- Pike's legal team had filed the clemency petition earlier this month, requesting that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison.
- Moving ahead with Pike's execution puts Tennessee "on singular footing", her attorneys said, as she would be the first person the state "executes in the modern death penalty era who was a teenager at the time of the offence".
Sources: BBC News