Episode 3438
Christa Pike
Thu, 2026-Oct-01 04:19 UTC
Length - 1:59
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With 1,334,670 views on Wednesday, 30 September 2026 our article of the day is Christa Pike.
Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer who is incarcerated on death row in Tennessee. In 1995, when she was 18, Pike murdered her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Pike and two friends led Slemmer into the woods, where they tortured and killed her. In 1996, at the age of 20, Pike was sentenced to death, making her one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. She is currently scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026. If the execution is carried out, she will be the 19th woman executed nationwide since 1976 and the first woman executed in Tennessee in 206 years, since the hanging of Eve Martin in 1820.
Pike's sentence remains controversial, as some experts have opined that her legal defense failed to present mitigating evidence at trial, including the effect of her youth and childhood trauma on her decision-making abilities.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 04:19 UTC on Thursday, 1 October 2026.
For the full current version of the article, see Christa Pike on Wikipedia.
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