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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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1 is a number, numeral, and grapheme. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, and represents a single thing. The representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. Linguistically, in English, "one" is a determiner for singular nouns and a gender-neutral pronoun.
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The convicted killer of Colleen Slemmer is said to be awake and speaking in hospital in Tennessee after an execution attempt.
Following her unprecedented survival of a lethal injection, Christa Pikes defense team is deploying a multi-pronged legal strategy—including double jeopardy claims and clemency requests—to ensure Tennessee cannot send her back to the death chamber.
A Tennessee judge ruled that the state must preserve evidence related to Pike’s failed execution for a murder she committed at 18. The victim, Colleen Slemmer, was 19.