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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.
17 wrz 2024 · As the only woman sentenced to death in Tennessee, Christa Pike has spent years living in something akin to solitary confinement at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center northwest of downtown Nashville.
21 maj 2024 · Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, was recently featured on an episode of Investigation Discovery's TV series "Mean Girl Murders." Pike, 48, was convicted of murder for the...
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.
In Tennessee, there is currently one woman on death row. In 1996, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the beating and then murdering of a fellow Jobs Corps worker from Knoxville, Tennessee.
3 lis 2023 · KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (TCD) -- A judge upheld the sentence of the only woman on Tennessee’s death row almost 30 years after she killed a 19-year-old because she "just felt mean that day."
20 wrz 2024 · Tennessee still plans to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, but it will afford her more time with other incarcerated women after 27 years of what her attorneys describe as...
