Who is Christa Pike? Woman set to be Tennessee’s first female execution in 200 years

Christa Pike, now 50, was 18 when she was convicted of killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Tennessee in 1995. Three decades later, she is scheduled to be executed on September 30, potentially becoming the first woman put to death by the state in more than 200 years.

New Delhi: Christa Pike is set to make history in Tennessee. The 50-year-old death row inmate is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, September 30, after Governor Bill Lee rejected her request for clemency. If the execution goes ahead, Pike will become the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than two centuries. She is also the only woman currently on the state’s death row.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow student at the Knoxville Job Corps Center. Pike was 18 at the time of the........

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