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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, slashed, and had a pentagram carved in 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 to receive a death sentence in the United States during the post-Furman period.
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Burchett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Josiah Burchett, British Secretary of the Admiralty (1694–1742) Wilfred Burchett, Australian war journalist, alleged KGB agent, and first Westerner to cover the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima (1911–1983) Tim Burchett, the U.S.
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Christa Pike is back in prison after receiving medical care following two doses of pentobarbital.
She has since been discharged and is back at the women’s prison.
Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison, according to a statement released by her attor