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The state of Tennessee has not executed a woman in some 200 years.

And Krista Gail Pike is fighting to not be the next.

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J.

Presents, Robes' story that got a lot of headlines at the end of last year because there

was a date put on the books for an execution, a rare execution of a woman in Tennessee.

That's right.

She was set, I say is said.

There's not a was. It is said to be executed on September 30th of this year. But Krista Pike has now filed a lawsuit to stop her

execution. She says that executing her would violate her constitutional rights and her religious beliefs.

We'll get into exactly how she's saying an execution would do both of those things to her.

It's interesting. It's creative.

It's creative. You just said, because my next question to you, we just, we happen to cover a lot of executions

in Rome. We see this thing, fighting, fighting, fighting to stay alive. Yes, attorneys will come up

with all sorts of different reasons as to why their client shouldn't die, whether they go back

to the trial and find some reason why they didn't get a fair shake, or they'll go and

try and find reasons why their client is not mentally stable enough to face an execution. But this

woman's attorneys are claiming she has a condition and she has a religious belief that would preclude her from being

executed. Look, we've come up and we, I say we've come up. They, a lot of attorneys have come up

with all kinds of ideas for how to save their client. We don't see necessarily robes. It work

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