Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

Christa Pike’s attorney said last week’s halted execution of Tony Carruthers raises concerns about Tennessee’s lethal ...

The only woman on Tennessee's death row has been scheduled for execution more than 30 years after she brutally killed a teenage romantic rival and showed off a piece of the victim's skull to ...

Christa Gail Pike, sentenced to death for brutally murdering her classmate over a boyfriend, is set to be executed on September 30, 2026. But now she’s making a chilling plea to stay alive, as the U.S ...

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Slemmer was found with a pentagram carved into her chest, and Pike kept a piece of her skull as a sounvenir. The convicted killer has ...

<Tennessee's only woman on death row is asking a federal judge in Knoxville to prevent her execution.Christa Gail Pike's lawyer filed a petition claiming his client's constitutional rights were ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The only woman currently sentenced to death in Tennessee has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s revised lethal injection execution protocol. Christa Gail Pike filed suit in ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

A federal court has denied a request to release and overturn the death penalty conviction for Christa Gail Pike, a former Knoxville resident who was sentenced two decades ago for the brutal torture ...