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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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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.
A week after the failed execution, Pike is awake but is said to be angry and confused. Her lawyers said Wednesday's hearing was about "transparency."
After Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived an execution attempt it's unclear whether the state will try again.