Christa Pike Execution.
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. 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. 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..
Christa Gail PIke, facing likely execution in the future in Tennessee. They were responding to the Tennessee Attorney General's Office, which argues Pike has exhausted all appeals options and now... Christa Pike, who was convicted in the 1995 Job Corps murder, convinced Mary Beth Leibowitz to let her drop her appeals earlier this year. She changed her mind after the state set an... 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... Christa Pike fights move to set execution date. What's the difference between being 17 years old and being 18? In Christa Gail Pike 's case, her lawyers say, the difference is a death... A Knox County judge has rejected a bid to vacate the death sentence of Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee and the youngest American woman to be sentenced to death since 1972. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Colleen Slemmer's mom is asking the courts to set an execution date for her daughter's killer. Christa Gail Pike, now 45, was convicted for killing Slemmer in 1996 and...
Christa Pike: What to know about Tennessee's only woman on death row
Christa Pike fights move to set execution date. What's the difference between being 17 years old and being 18? In Christa Gail Pike 's case, her lawyers say, the difference is a death... A Knox County judge has rejected a bid to vacate the death sentence of Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee and the youngest American woman to be sentenced to death since 1972. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Colleen Slemmer's mom is asking the courts to set an execution date for her daughter's killer. Christa Gail Pike, now 45, was convicted for killing Slemmer in 1996 and...
Christa Pike: What to know about Tennessee's only woman on death row