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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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Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care
The Tennessee death row prisoner survived two rounds of lethal injection on Sept. 30 and remains handcuffed to a hospital bed with severe damage to both arms, her legal team said Tuesday.
Pike's lawyers say she is "grateful" to the medical team who cared for her after she survived two lethal injections last month.