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Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
18 maj 2024 · Christa Pike has exhausted all her appeals and remains on death row. She is held at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center under maximum custody. Now 48 years old, if Pike is executed, she would be the first woman in Tennessee to face execution in hundreds of years.
12 paź 2024 · Christa Pike miała zaledwie 18 lat, kiedy została skazana na śmierć za brutalne morderstwo swojej rówieśniczki, Colleen Slemmer, w 1995 roku. Do dziś, mimo upływu prawie trzech dekad, nadal przebywa na amerykańskiej "celi śmierci", czekając na wykonanie wyroku.
17 wrz 2024 · Pike, who is now 48, was 18 when she killed Slemmer while they were attending a job training program for troubled teens in Knoxville. The murder came after Pike reportedly became convinced that Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp.
3 lis 2023 · According to the Nashville Tennessean, 47-year-old Christa Pike’s attorneys cited a recent Tennessee Supreme Court case, Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker, in the hope it would sway the judge to overturn the ruling.
15 cze 2021 · The mother of Christa Pike's murder victim is calling for her to be executed. Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen...
1 lis 2023 · In 1996, a jury convicted Pike of murder and sentenced her to death for the brutal killing of Colleen Slemmer, another student at the Knoxville Job Corps, a year before. Prosecutors said Pike...
