Christa Gail Pike is a convicted murderer who is incarcerated on death row in Tennessee. In 1995, when she was 18, Pike murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Pike and two friends led Slemmer into the woods, where they tortured and killed her. In 1996 at just 20 years old, Pike was sentenced to death, making her one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States.
She is scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026. If carried out, she will be the 19th woman executed nationwide since 1976 and the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years. Pike's sentence remains controversial, arguing her legal defense failed to present mitigating evidence at trial, including the effect of her youth and childhood trauma on her decision-making abilities and mental health.
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