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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The State of Tennessee has scheduled the execution of Christa Gail Pike, an East Tennessee woman convicted in the torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer and the only woman on ...

On Sept. 30, 2026, Christa Pike is scheduled to become the fourth woman executed in Tennessee history. The other three were ...

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 ...

Christa Pike's attorneys argue the execution process will cause her to relive the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has set an execution date for the only woman on the state’s death row. Christa Gail Pike, 49, will be executed on Sept. 30, 2026. Pike was among ...

As Christa Pike waits to become first woman executed in Tennessee, here's a look at death penalty cases that ended ...

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, faces a September 2026 execution date. The Tennessee Supreme Court set Pike's Sept. 30, 2026, date on Tuesday. It also ...