Wednesday's execution attempt came 30 years after Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
ABC News2 Oct
Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend beat and killed Colleen Slemmer, 19, at a job training camp for young people.
Euronews2 Oct
The death penalty is back center stage in national politics in the most macabre of circumstances. Christa Pike, 50, who admits to the gruesome 1995 murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer, is in critical condition in the hospital after Tennessee’s…
The Hill•Niall Stanage1 Oct
Christa Pike's ex-boyfriend -- who helped her torture and kill a 19-year-old woman -- is still locked up ... but he's taking steps to change his scenery. Tadaryl Shipp is currently housed in Tennessee's Northwest Correctional Complex ... according…
TMZ•TMZ Staff1 OctChrista Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal injection late on Wednesday, prison officials said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two…
Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend beat and killed Colleen Slemmer, 19, at a job training camp for young people.
Euronews1 Oct
Updated at 10:45 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30 The Supreme Court on Wednesday night cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. In a brief, unsigned order , the court lifted a ruling by the U.S.
SCOTUSblog•Amy Howe1 OctChrista Pike, 50, was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
ABC News30 Sept
Pike was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.
BBC30 Sept
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row.
The Guardian•Associated Press28 Sept
