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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 and slashed, and a pentagram was carved into 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 sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman era.
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Pike's attorneys say she is grateful for the care of first responders and her medical team.
Tennessee’s failed execution raises questions about the veil of secrecy execution teams operate under and whether there is a flaw in the protocol that led to things going wrong.
Pike survived two doses of lethal-injection drugs on September 30, renewing scrutiny of capital punishment.