With only days remaining before her scheduled execution, Christa Pike has now taken her case to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to stop Tennessee from carrying out her death sentence on September 30. The emergency application was filed on September 25 and submitted to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, according to the Supreme Court’s official docket.

The filing came after the Tennessee Supreme Court denied Pike’s request for a stay on September 23, rejecting her latest challenge to the state’s lethal-injection process. That decision left Pike’s execution schedule intact while her attorneys pursued relief at the nation’s highest court.

In the federal filing, Pike’s lawyers argue that the execution should be paused while the Supreme Court considers her petition and unresolved constitutional claims involving Tennessee’s lethal-injection protocol. An additional supporting brief was filed on September 26. As of the latest official docket update, the Supreme Court has not yet publicly ruled on the stay request.

Pike, 50, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 10:00 a.m. CDT on September 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Tennessee correction officials have already selected official media witnesses and issued final logistical instructions for execution day.

At the same time, Pike’s attorneys continue a separate clemency campaign asking Gov. Bill Lee to commute her sentence to life without parole. Their 226-page petition emphasizes her age of 18 at the time of the 1995 murder, severe childhood abuse, later diagnoses including PTSD and bipolar disorder, and her decades in prison. Those arguments are part of the clemency request and do not alter her conviction for the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Death Penalty Information Center

Another recent disclosure offers a glimpse into Pike’s final days. A friend told the BBC that Pike does not want loved ones present at the execution, reportedly because she does not want them to experience watching her die.