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Sep 17, 2024 · Today, she is one of only 52 women on death row in the United States and, if executed, would be the first woman killed by the state in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Although they were never housed together, Pike’s incarceration did overlap with the only other Tennessee woman sentenced to death since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States in 1976.
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Christa Pike. Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post- Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
Christa Pike is the only woman on Tennessee's death row for a crime she committed when she was an 18-year-old girl with untreated severe mental illness. If her execution proceeds, she will be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
Sep 5, 2023 · Ms. Pike has also filed a separate lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Corrections based on her isolation as the only woman on the state’s death row, arguing that she has been kept in functional solitary confinement for over 25 years. Men on Tennessee’s death row are segregated from non-capital prisoners, but socialize and work ...
Sep 20, 2024 · Nashville Tennessean. 0:04. 0:49. Tennessee still plans to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, but it will afford her more time with other incarcerated women after 27 years of ...
May 16, 2013 · Cynthia Lynn Coffman was 24 when she murdered a 20-year-old woman in San Bernardino County, California, on November 7, 1986. She was sentenced to death on August 31, 1989. California Dept. of ...
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Pike was 19 years old when she committed her crime and at the time of her incarceration, she was the youngest person on death row at age 21. She was convicted of first-degree murder on January 12, 1995 and entered prison on March 30, 1996. Christa Pike: Born in West Virginia on March 10, 1976. Lived in Knoxville working in the former Federal ...
