Christa Pike Sentenced for Torture and Death of Fellow Student w/ 2 Fellow Students

Born in West Virginia in 1976, Pike had an extremely traumatic upbringing marked by violence, sexual abuse and substance abuse. Her attorneys say she developed severe mental illness as a result.

Pike has been on death row at Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville since she was convicted in 1996. While in prison in 2001, she attempted to kill another incarcerated woman, Patricia Jones, by strangling her with a shoestring. She was convicted of attempted murder in 2004.

Pike, 48, was convicted of murder for the 1995 killing of Colleen Slemmer at the Job Corps campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike is the last person in Tennessee sentenced to death for a crime they committed when they were 18.

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