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Death row inmate set to become first woman executed by US state in over 200 years has issued plea in handwritten letter

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the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 after executions were temporarily halted four years earlier.

Christa Pike is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. She was convicted in the 1995 death of student Colleen Slemmer, 19. Credit: the Tennessee Department of Correction

Legal team argues trauma and mental illness should spare her life

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