Supreme Court clears way for Tennessee to execute Christa Pike Wednesday

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop the execution of Christa Pike, 50, after Tennessee Governor Bill Lee denied her clemency request. Pike is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, committed when Pike was 18. It would be Tennessee's first execution of a woman since at least 1820.