(This content was created with the help of AI.) Tennessee is moving toward its first execution of a woman in more than two centuries, and a coalition of advocates is pushing for it to be halted, USA Today reports.
Christa Pike, 50, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday for the 1995 torture and killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, a case so brutal it drew global attention.
Pike’s lawyers, joined by dozens of women’s groups and trauma experts, say her execution would violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment because the process—being strapped down by guards and injected by a male doctor—will trigger vivid flashbacks to the sexual abuse and rapes Pike endured as a toddler, child, and teenager…