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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 Job Corps 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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Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. According to the United States Census Bureau, the state's estimated population as of 2024 is 7.22 million.
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The convicted killer is in hospital in Tennessee after surviving two lethal injections, in a case that has raised many questions.
Christa Pike’s death sentence is still in effect, but whether Tennessee can ever carry it out could depend on what happens to her brain and her body.
Two lethal doses failed to kill death row inmate Christa Gail Pike, and she was placed on medical care. Her death warrant expired at 11:59 p.m. Central time Wednesday, Sept. 30. She remains unconscious and under medical care in Nashville.