NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set an execution date for the only woman in the state on death row.
Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow Knoxville Job Corps student. Slemmer, 18, was stabbed and beaten by Pike and Tadaryl Shipp, Pike’s boyfriend at the time, on the University of Tennessee’…