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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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Christa Pike is conscious and walking after the state of Tennessee failed to execute her. Her lawyers are calling for the state’s governor to commute her sentence to life in prison, and we are being told that Pike is “angry and confused”.
Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital and in prison after surviving two failed executions attempts for her role in a 1995 murder
A close friend of death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution attempt, revealed the conversation they days before the murderer was due to die