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American murderer on death row (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. Slemmer was beaten and slashed, and a pentagram was carved into 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 sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman era.
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Death row inmate Christa Pike had her handcuffs removed in hospital after surviving a botched Tennessee execution, though one foot remains shackled.
As convicted murderer Christa Pike continues her hospitalization after a failed execution attempt, how much is it costing Tennessee taxpayers?
‘There could be some permanent damage. We don’t know that yet.’