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American murderer (born 1976)
Christa Gail Pike is an American convicted 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. Over roughly thirty minutes, Slemmer was beaten, slashed, and had a pentagram carved in her chest before Pike killed her by crushing her skull with a chunk of asphalt.
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"Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery," her legal team said in a statement.
Christa Pike, who recently had an unsuccessful execution, is reportedly "conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care."
Lawyers seek preservation of evidence after prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital on 30 September