Evil woman who ‘took victim’s skull as souvenir’ has execution date | US | News
Tennessee’s current woman’s death order prisoner took the date of execution 30 years after brutally killed her classmate.
On January 12, 1995, Christa Pike was imprisoned at the age of 18 to brutally kill and torture a student. His victim was another young girl named Colleen Slemmer and a student at Knoxville Job Corps.
After Slemmer was stabbed and beaten by Pike, he was killed with his boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp at Tennessee University agricultural campus. Money and Memphis Native Shipp were sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of conditional evacuation.
Together, two young people were a brutal pentagram on Slemmer’s chest, and Pike took a part of his skull as a souvenir to make the murder even more disturbing. Pike added 25 years to his sentence because he received a secondary conviction after trying to drown his prisoner in a prison fight.
Since then, the execution of the 49 -year -old child will take place on September 30, 2026. If the execution continues as planned, Pike will fall into history as the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in 200 years. In addition, it will be only the 19th woman in the history of modern USA, which will be killed by execution.
Although a woman sent during death is a very rare case, Pike’s planned death emerges at a time when executions rise throughout the US as it expands its killing methods. He only saw that 34 prisoners were executed this year; The states have still carried out nine more planning to continue.
Lawyers, Tennessee Supreme Court on behalf of the young age on behalf of Pike, went to the sentence when the crime committed “severe mental illness” tried to claim to claim. According to the law team, he experienced sexual abuse and neglect in his childhood.
At the time of his arrest, he was not diagnosed with bipolar and post -traumatic stress disorders. Lawyers wrote in a statement published on Wednesday: “With time and treatment, Christa has become a thoughtful woman who has deep regret for its crime.”
Following a three -year pause, which caused the state of Tennessee to not test enough fatal injections for purity and power, the state has launched a new tour of execution since May. In an independent investigation, since 2018, seven prisoners have not been fully tested.
Later, he was admitted to the court by the office of Tennessee Chief Prosecutor Jonathan Skrmetti, and Tennessee’s two responsible for supervising fatal injection drugs “misrepresented”. They had previously claimed that the authorities had actually tested chemicals properly.
Pike wrote a letter Tennessean About his experience, confessing, “Think of the worst mistake you’ve made as a reckless young man. Mine ruined big, unforgettable and countless lives.
“I was a mentally 18 -year -old boy. It took too many years to notice what I did even realize what I was doing.
“I took the life of someone’s child, sister and friend.
