Christa Pike
American murderer on death row (born 1976)
American murderer on death row (born 1976)
Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is a convicted American murderer on death row in Tennessee. In 1995, when she was 18, Pike and her boyfriend lured their 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer into a wooded area in Knoxville where they tortured and killed her. Slemmer was beaten, slashed, and had a pentagram carved in her chest before Pike killed her by crushing her skull. Pike was arrested within two days and sentenced to death in 1996 at the age of 20, making her one of the youngest women to receive a death sentence in the United States during the post-Furman period. Pike spent her prison time in solitary confinement at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville. She was scheduled to be executed via lethal injection on September 30, 2026, but she survived the attempt after two rounds of pentobarbital failed to kill her. Pike was subsequently hospitalized in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She was unconscious, on a ventilator...
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