Tennessee Prepares to Execute a Woman for a Crime She Committed at Age 18 – WTOP News
Prosecutors say the 1995 killing met Tennessee’s enhanced-killing standard, and women account for about 1% of modern U.S. executions, officials said.
- Christa Pike is set to be executed at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after Governor Bill Lee announced Monday he would not grant clemency, clearing the way for Tennessee's first execution of a woman in more than 200 years.
- Pike, then 18, was convicted for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer at Knoxville Job Corps, where prosecutors said she lured Slemmer to a secluded area before killing her.
- Assistant Federal Defender Stephen Ferrell argues the death sentence is inappropriate, citing Pike's history of severe sexual abuse at ages 11 and 17; her legal team petitioned the Supreme Court to stay the execution.
- Victim's mother May Martinez has waited decades for the sentence, saying she wants justice to "finally stop this," while executions of female inmates remain rare, accounting for only about 1% of all U.S. executions.
- State officials agreed to specific conditions for Pike, including an all-female staff for transport and extra privacy, with protocol dictating that all staff and vehicles must be in place 48 hours before the scheduled time.
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Tennessee prepares to execute a woman for a crime she committed at age 18 – WTOP News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is preparing to put to death Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder she committed at age 18 in what would be the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years. Pike, now 50, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday morning by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum...
Recognized guilty of having tortured and murdered Colleen Slemmer, her schoolmate, in Knoxville in 1995 when she was 18, the prisoner, who spent thirty years on death row, was to be killed on Wednesday by injection of pentobarbital.
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