{"id":"761a937d-0566-40be-8c3a-63abb56eeff9","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8r6rjdvlx6o","domain":"bbc.co.uk","outlet":{"name":"BBC","country":"GB","cred":5,"lean":0,"curated":true,"owner":"British Broadcasting Corporation"},"title":"US Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike to go ahead","plainHeadline":"US Supreme Court allows Christa Pike execution to proceed","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["US Supreme Court cleared the way for Tennessee inmate Christa Pike's execution.","Pike, 50, was convicted in 1996 for Colleen Slemmer's murder.","The earlier scheduled lethal injection was halted by a Sixth Circuit stay.","Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted the application to vacate the stay.","If carried out, Pike would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years."],"topics":["Politics"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-09-30T23:23:23.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-09-30T23:25:35.350Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/f4290b00-d391-4b89-bdb4-7e940294bcf0","storyId":"f4290b00-d391-4b89-bdb4-7e940294bcf0","image":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/6311/live/31a802d0-bd25-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg","author":"Sareen Habeshian","dek":"The death by lethal injection was scheduled to happen earlier on Wednesday before judges from an appeals court halted the execution."}