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American murderer (born 1976)
Christa Gail Pike is an American convicted murderer on death row in Tennessee. In Knoxville in 1995, when she was 18, Pike and her boyfriend lured their 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer into the woods where they tortured and killed her. In 1996, at the age of 20, Pike was sentenced to death, making her one of the youngest women to receive a death sentence in the United States during the post-Furman period. If executed, she would be the 19th woman executed nationwide since 1976, and the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years.
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Emergency court filings reveal Christa Pike is in critical condition at a Nashville hospital—unconscious, intubated, and suffering from swollen, burned, and blistered arms—after surviving two lethal doses of pentobarbital.
Christa Pike remains hospitalized after she survived what should have been two lethal injections during Tennessee’s execution attempt last week.
The convicted murderer, 50, was set to become the first woman put to death in Tennessee for over 200 years Wednesday, but survived the lethal injections administered to her.