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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.
This is a list of women on death row in the United States. The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [1]
- Christa Pike’s Inauspicious Beginnings
- The Knoxville Job Corps Killing: The Murder of Colleen Slemmer
- Murder Investigation, Trial, and Conviction
- Christa Pike Today
Born on March 10, 1976, in West Virginia, Christa Gail Pike’s life got off to a rocky start. Her mother was a “party girl” who was more interested in drinking and drugging than she was in raising her daughter. Her father wanted no part in caring for her. As a result, Christa was raised by her grandmother for most of her early life. But Pike’s grand...
Like Christa Pike, Tadaryl Shipp also came from a less-than-desirable background. Raised by a single mother, Shipp dropped out of high school in the 9th grade and went on to get involved with known gang members. At his mother’s urging, Shipp also joined the Knoxville Job Corps, where he enrolled in the culinary arts program. According to fellow Job...
Even though none of Christa Pike’s friends or co-conspirators reported her crime to the police, it didn’t take long for Colleen Slemmer’s body to be recovered. But thanks to her bragging about the crime to her fellow Job Corps attendees — even going so far as to show off the piece of Slemmer’s skull to some of her friends — police were quickly led ...
To say that Christa Pike hasn’t been a model prisoner would be an understatement. To this day, she has shownno remorse for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. In fact, she wrote a troubling letter to Tadaryl Shipp just a few days after she was sentenced to die by electrocution: This letter was subsequently read aloud at a later court date for Pike. In A...
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Jun 15, 2021 · The mother of Christa Pike's murder victim is calling for her to be executed. Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen...
Jul 3, 2019 · A photo gallery of Kentucky death row inmates who have been sentenced to execution. Learn more about the gruesome acts that put them behind bars.
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