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Human Rights Lawyer Explains How Christa Pike Could Walk Free
Original: Human Rights Lawyer explains how Christa Pike could walk free after recovery
A human rights lawyer has set out the legal routes by which Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, could potentially walk free. Pike was convicted of the 1995 murder of fellow student Colleen Slemmer and has spent decades appealing her death sentence. Commentators are weighing how ongoing appeals, claims about her age at the time of the crime and broader death penalty challenges could affect her fate.
Why now: Fresh legal commentary has reignited public interest in a decades-old death row case and the possibility of her release
Christa PikeColleen SlemmerTennessee
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