Lethal injection by all-female team slated for Tennessee’s 1st woman death row inmate in 200 years
A condemned Tennessee killer — the first woman sentenced to death in the state in 200 years — is demanding an all-female lethal injection team to carry out her execution, claiming she could be ...
Christa Pike is set to die Sept. 30 for torturing and murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...
Christa Pike is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row — one of 42 inmates awaiting execution in the state — and she is scheduled to be put to death on September 30, 2026, for a 1995 murder she ...
Tennessee is moving toward its first execution of a woman in more than two centuries, and a coalition of advocates is pushing for it to be halted, USA Today reports. Christa Pike, 50, is scheduled to ...
(The Center Square) – Christa Pike was 18 years old when she was charged in the 1995 death of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Thirty-one years and a murder conviction later, the execution of ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Less than one week before the scheduled execution of the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, the state’s Supreme Court has denied a request to stay the execution. The ...
A female Tennessee death row inmate has asked that she be killed by an all-female execution squad after she was convicted for murdering her classmate more than 30 years ago. Investigators said that ...
The Tennessee Supreme Court is not stopping Christa Pike's upcoming execution. Pike, 50, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. She ...
A man convicted of murdering three people in their apartment while searching for drugs to steal was executed in Texas on Wednesday evening, a week after his accomplice was put to death for the same ...
Despite her last-minute appeals for clemency and legal arguments targeting Tennessee's execution procedures, Christa Pike is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 30 after spending 30 years ...
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The state of Texas execution chamber in Huntsville ...
At just 18 years old, Peacock was on the cusp of starting college and wanted to become a veterinarian. She had a beautiful voice and planned to try out for "American Idol." She definitely wanted to ...
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