Christa Pike: The Crime That Shook a Nation

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She was found guilty of first - degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution, making her one of the youngest women on death row in US history. Additionally, she was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, for which she received an additional 25-year sentence. In 1995 , in Knoxville, Tennessee , a chilling murder took place that shocked the nation. Christa Pike, at the tender age of 18, was involved in a heinous crime that left the victim brutally. 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. Christa Pike is the only woman on Tennessee ’ s Death Row for a crime she committed when she was 18 years old. Christa suffers from severe mental illnesses and physical brain damage, conditions she has experienced since childhood that are compounded by physical and sexual abuse, violence, and neglect she endured by members of her family, their. 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. 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. According to the Nashville Tennessean, 47-year-old Christa Pike’s attorneys cited a recent Tennessee Supreme Court case , Tennessee v . Tyshon Booker , in the hope it would sway the judge to overturn the ruling. The Crime That Shocked the Nation: The Murders of 1995 In 1995, Christa Pike became the youngest woman sentenced to death in the United States after the infamous murder of her classmate, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. This gruesome act sent shockwaves through the community and garnered national media attention.