Teenage killer Christa Pike has been cleared for execution after the United States Supreme Court overruled a last-minute stay.
Pike, now 50, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10am on Wednesday for the 1995 slaying of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in a fit of jealous rage.
But the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an order early Wednesday morning staying Pike’s execution ‘until further order of this court.’
It came after a judge agreed to consider whether prosecutors took into account the childhood sexual abuse she suffered when she was first sentenced.
‘The court has stayed this, recognizing the
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