Christa Pike’s case has reached its most urgent stage, with her emergency request to stop the execution now formally before the U.S. Supreme Court while Tennessee continues preparations for September 30.

Pike’s attorneys filed an application for a stay of execution on September 25, asking the Supreme Court to intervene after the Tennessee Supreme Court rejected her latest challenge two days earlier. The application was submitted to Justice Brett Kavanaugh and argues that Pike should not be executed while the Court considers unresolved constitutional questions surrounding Tennessee’s lethal-injection protocol.

The Supreme Court docket shows that an additional supporting brief was filed on September 26. As of the latest publicly available docket information, no order granting or denying the stay has been posted, meaning the legal fight remains active with very little time left.

Pike is scheduled to be executed at 10:00 a.m. CDT on September 30. Her lawyers argue that the execution procedure creates serious constitutional concerns, particularly regarding intravenous access, restraint and medical procedures that could interact with her documented trauma history.

At the same time, a separate clemency campaign continues before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. Pike’s 226-page petition asks that her death sentence be commuted to life without parole and emphasizes her age of 18 at the time of the crime, severe childhood abuse, PTSD, bipolar disorder and decades spent on death row.

More than 100 organizations and experts working in trauma and sexual violence have supported clemency, arguing that carrying out the execution could recreate aspects of the severe abuse Pike experienced earlier in life. Those claims are part of the clemency and constitutional arguments; they do not alter her conviction for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer Information Center

Tennessee, meanwhile, has not withdrawn the execution warrant. A court-appointed special master previously concluded that Pike had not demonstrated that the state’s execution procedure would violate her constitutional rights, and the Tennessee Supreme Court subsequently declined to stop the execution.