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Christa Pike, with a history of severe mental illness and repeated sexual and physical abuse and violence, was sentenced to death in 1996 , just a few weeks after she turned 20. Colleen Slemmer , a 19-year-old Job Corps student lured to a secluded spot near the University of Tennessee agriculture campus on Jan. 12, 1995, and murdered by Christa Gail Pike, with help from. As the only woman sentenced to death in Tennessee, Christa Pike has spent years living in something akin to solitary confinement at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center northwest of downtown Nashville. That’s where she’s been incarcerated since she was convicted in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. Christa Pike , at the tender age of 18, was involved in a heinous crime that left the victim brutally murdered. The story of Christa Pike is a complex tale of a troubled upbringing,. Christa Pike , the only woman in Tennessee sentenced to death, has been adapting to increased levels of socialization after being removed from de facto solitary confinement last year, according to. In August 2001 , Christa Pike attacked fellow inmate Patricia Jones, attempting to strangle her with a shoelace. For this, she was convicted of attempted first-degree murder in August 2004, for which she was given another 25 years in prison. In January of 1995, Christa Pike came up with a brutal plan to teach Colleen Slemmer a deadly lesson. Listen to this episode of Crimes & Consequences to learn more about the horrific murder of Colleen Slemmer. Christa Gail Pike , 24, the youngest woman on America’s death row, will ever leave prison alive. In 1996, the then 19-year-old Pike was sentenced to die by electrocution for an unspeakably horrific crime. But Pike has a face that beguiles easily. Catherine Crier, the host of an American television news programme called Fox Files, described her.