The state of Tennessee may soon carry out its first execution of a woman in more than two centuries after the Tennessee Supreme Court allowed the sentence of Christa Gail Pike to move forward. Pike, now 49, is currently the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. She was 18 years old when she was convicted for the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995. The 1995 murder caseThe crime occurred on January 12, 1995, in a wooded area near the agricultural campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. At the time, both Pike and Slemmer were participating in the... Continues…





