India, Sept. 14 -- Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on September 30, 2026. However, the planned execution drew attention from the United Nations human rights experts, as they called on US authorities to stop it.

In a statement issued Monday, UN experts urged both the US federal government and the State of Tennessee to halt the execution, arguing that Pike's nearly three decades on death row, much of it in isolation, amounts to torture under international law.

If carried out, Pike's execution would mark the first execution of a woman in Tennessee in more than 200 years, according to state records.

The UN experts argue that Pike's case raises serious human rights conce...