Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executions | Death Penalty News | Al Jazeera

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's Death Row, is scheduled for execution by lethal injection but has requested to be shot by an all-female firing squad. Her execution in Nashville will be the first for a woman in over 200 years in Tennessee, after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute attempt to halt it. Convicted of torturing and killing Colleen Slemmer in 1995, Pike was sentenced to death, while her accomplice received a life sentence with parole. Her legal team and trauma experts say she fears lethal injection and is remorseful.