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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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Former prison official Frank Strada oversaw five botched executions since 2022, including three in AZ.
Tennessee’s prison chief, Frank Strada, is stepping down from his position later this month as he faces national backlash after overseeing Christa Pike’s botched attempted execution. Pike remains hospitalized in critical condition and on a ventilator unconscious, with burns and blisters on both her arms, after…
Christa Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Nashville hospital five days after the state of Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on September 30. She remains hospitalized under guard as doctors try to clear the massive dose of pentobarbital from her system.