India, Sept. 29 -- The state of Tennessee is preparing to carry out its first execution of a female inmate in more than two centuries, drawing intense national scrutiny to the highly controversial case of Christa Pike. Scheduled to receive a lethal injection on September 30, 2026, Pike remains the sole woman currently housed on the state's death row.

Her impending execution stems from the brutal 1995 murder of nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a crime Pike committed alongside two other teenagers when she was just eighteen years old.

As the execution date rapidly approaches, a coalition of advocates, clinical psychologists, and legal defence teams are launching a desperate campaign to halt the procedure, arguing that severe childhood tr...