Crime

Christa Pike was due to be executed via lethal injection on 30 September in Tennessee

She murdered at 18 but will finally meet the ultimate punishment at 50-years-old.

Douglas Stewart Carter spent decades on death row, before being released

Teen killer Christa Pike, now 50, is convicted of killing a classmate in 1995

Somehow, she denies all charges.

Christa Pike will become the first woman to be executed in the state of Tennessee in 200 years today (30 September)

Christa Pike's final attempt to to stop the execution has failed

Pike has spent around 30 years on death row after being sentenced to death for a murder committed when she was 18

Caleb Flynn broke down in tears as the guilty verdict was delivered after less than three hours of deliberations

Five British men were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning and have since been released on bail

Emergency services spent hours searching the River Wear after a black Audi A3 entered the water near Wearmouth Bridge

Christa Pike says she has recieved more support in the last two weeks than in her 'entire life' as she prepares for her execution

Five men were arrested and later bailed following the incident

The jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case couldn't reach a unanimous verdict

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Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, has had her clemency request denied

Police have said the men remain under investigation, with counter-terrorism police examining multiple lines of inquiry

Pike allegedly said she killed a fellow student because she 'had just felt mean that day'

The situation quickly escalated

David and his wife Linda were paid $1 million by the FBI for helping capture his brother, from whom he was estranged