Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in more than 200 years on Wednesday, after the United States Supreme Court rejected a last-minute bid to halt it. Christa Pike, 50, who was convicted of torturing and killing a classmate when she was 18, is due to die by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, but according to a report by The New York Post, she has asked to be shot by an all-female firing squad instead. So why does she fear lethal injection, and how does the US put people to death? Here’s what you need to know: Pike was found guilty of the murder of another young woman she viewed as a romantic rival more than 30 years ago.
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