{"id":1284,"date":"2026-09-22T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:57:46","slug":"attorney-for-death-row-woman-set-to-be-first-executed-for-200-years-by-us-state-makes-special-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Attorney For Death Row Woman Set To Be First Executed For 200 Years By US State Makes Special Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She is days from a death chamber no woman has entered in Tennessee for two centuries. The crime was unspeakable. The sentence, historic. But now her own body may turn the execution into a slow, public horror. Her lawyer has stepped forward with a desperate warning and one final, haunting reque\u2026 <strong>Continues\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christa Gail Pike\u2019s name has long been synonymous with one of Tennessee\u2019s most brutal murders. At 18, she helped lure and slaughter 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in an attack so vicious it stunned even seasoned investigators. A jury quickly sentenced her to death, and for nearly three decades she has waited, aging from volatile teen to middle\u2011aged woman inside a concrete cell, while appeals painted a portrait of a childhood ravaged by abuse, neglect, and untreated mental illness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>Now, with an execution date set for September 30, 2026, the focus has shifted from what Pike did to what the state may do to her. Attorney Stephen Ferrell warns that her small, fragile veins and a blood disorder could turn a lethal injection into a prolonged, bloody ordeal\u2014more drowning than dying. Citing a recent botched execution attempt on another inmate, he is urging Tennessee to halt or reconsider, arguing that even in the shadow of a monstrous crime, the Constitution does not permit a torturous death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is days from a death chamber no woman has entered in Tennessee for two centuries. The crime was unspeakable. The sentence, historic. But now her&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}