The Tennessi Supreme Court has set the dates of execution for four people, including the only woman in the state on the death line.
Christa Pike was sentenced to death at the age of 18 at the age of 18, torture of Choline Slamar, a fellow student of Naxville Job Corps. The 18 -year -old slamor was stabbed by Pike and Tadryl Ship, Pike lover at the Agricultural Complex of Tennessi University.
They engraved a Pentagram in the chest of the slamur, and investigators claimed that Pike took a piece of the victim’s skull for a souvenir. Memphis ship was sentenced to life in jail with the possibility of parole. Pike was also convicted for trying to strangle a fellow prisoner during a prison battle in 2004, in which he got 25 years in his sentence.
Pike lawyers first asked the High Court of the state to pronounce their sentence on their youth and “serious mental illness at the time of his crime.”
Pike faced physical and sexual abuse and neglect as a child, according to his lawyers. She was also suffering from bipolar and post-tromatic stress disorders, which was not diagnosed for years after her arrest.
“With time and treatment … Christa has become a thoughtful woman with deep regrets for her crime,” a statement by Wednesday’s lawyers.
Tennessy began a new round of execution in May after a three -year stagnation in May, after the discovery that the state was not properly testing the deadly injection drugs for purity and power.
An independent review later found that none of the drugs prepared for seven prisoners executed in Tennessee since 2018 were tested. The office of the state’s Attorney General also admitted in the court that the most responsible for the supervision of Tennessy’s deadly injection drugs “wrongly testify” under the oath that the authorities were testing chemicals as required.
The court on Tuesday also set the dates of execution for Tony Karuthers, Gary Sutton and Anthony Hines.
In 1994, in 1994, 17 -year -old Frederick Tucker, and Anderson’s mother, 43 -year -old, Marcelos Tucker was convicted for robbing and killing Marcelos Anderson. The Karuthers were forced to represent themselves in the trial after repeated complaints about the court-appointed lawyers and threatened to harm many of them.
In 1985, Hines were convicted for stabbing the deadly stab of 54 -year -old Catherine Jean Jenkins, a maximum maid at Kingston Springs.
Sutton was sentenced to death for 24 -year -old Tommy Griffin for a 1992 shotgun, when he was already convicted of killing Griffin’s sister Koni Branam, whose body was discovered in his burnt vehicle.
Sutton argued his innocence. A statement by his lawyers stated that, “Scientific evidence connecting Gary to the case is from the insults, the medical examiner Charles Halan, who was later taken away from his license.”
According to the statement, Griffin was a friend of Sutton, and “there is no purpose for crime and there is no direct proof connecting Gary to murder.”
64 -year -old Herold Nichols is also to be executed by an order in Tennessee from the beginning of this year. Nichols was convicted of rape and first-digry hooliganism in the 1988 death of Karen Puli at Hamilton County.
The execution of Donald Middlebrokes is pending at the solution of a federal court case challenging the execution protocol of Tennessee.