🚨 BREAKING: CHRISTA PIKE HAS DAYS LEFT — THEN HER ATTORNEYS MADE ONE FINAL REQUEST

September 30 is getting closer. And now, Christa Pike’s attorneys are asking Tennessee to change what happens inside the execution chamber.

Not the date.

Not the sentence.

The people who would be there.

Pike’s legal team is asking for an all-female execution team, saying the 50-year-old death-row prisoner is terrified of being restrained by male officers because of severe sexual abuse she experienced as a child.

The request comes as Tennessee moves forward with preparations for Pike’s scheduled execution — while her attorneys continue fighting through clemency and other legal challenges.

And that is where this case takes another unexpected turn.

THE CLOCK IS ALREADY RUNNING

Tennessee has scheduled Pike’s execution for 10 a.m. CDT on September 30, 2026, at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

The state has already released media procedures and selected official witnesses for the scheduled execution.

But a scheduled date does not necessarily mean the legal fight is over.

Pike’s attorneys are still pursuing avenues that could affect what happens before September 30.

At the center of the latest request is something her lawyers say goes far beyond ordinary fear of an execution.

They say it is connected to trauma Pike experienced long before she ever entered a courtroom.

WHY MEN ARE AT THE CENTER OF THE LATEST REQUEST

According to Pike’s attorneys, she experienced repeated sexual abuse during childhood.

Her 226-page clemency petition argues that those experiences, along with later diagnoses and decades of incarceration, should be considered when Tennessee decides whether her death sentence should be carried out.

Her lawyers are asking Gov. Bill Lee to commute the sentence to life imprisonment without parole.

Now they are making another request.

If the execution proceeds, they want the personnel involved in carrying it out to be women.

Attorney Stephen Ferrell argued that having male staff involved could increase the risk of an Eighth Amendment violation and additional pain and suffering.

Those are arguments from Pike’s defense team; they are not a court finding that the requested change is legally required.

BUT THAT IS NOT THE ONLY LEGAL FIGHT

Pike’s attorneys have also challenged Tennessee’s lethal-injection protocol.

The defense has raised medical and procedural concerns about the execution method and argued that it could expose Pike to unconstitutional suffering.

A special judge previously rejected most of those challenges, finding that Pike had not established the legal standard necessary to prevail on the claims.

The defense continues to pursue relief as the execution date approaches.

And there is another reason this case has drawn renewed attention.

A separate group of trauma experts has argued that restraints, invasive procedures and loss of bodily control can potentially trigger traumatic responses in survivors of sexual violence.

NEARLY 30 YEARS HAVE PASSED

Pike was 18 years old when she was convicted in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, whom she knew from the Knoxville Job Corps.

She has now spent nearly three decades on Tennessee’s death row.

Her defense argues that the person facing execution today should be viewed in the context of the teenager she was, the abuse she experienced and the decades she has spent incarcerated.

The clemency petition asks Tennessee to replace the death sentence with life without parole.

But for Colleen Slemmer’s family, the approaching date represents something very differen