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Christa Pike
Born
Christa Gail Pike

(1976-03-10) March 10, 1976 (age 50)
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Known forTorturing her classmate Colleen Slemmer to death
Criminal status
Awaiting execution on death row
MotiveJealousy
ConvictionsFirst degree murder
Conspiracy to commit first degree murder
Attempted first degree murder (March 22, 1996)
Criminal penalty
Death (March 30, 1996)
Details
Victims
  • 1995: Colleen Slemmer
  • 2001: Patricia Jones (survived)
Date
  • January 12, 1995
  • August 24, 2001
CountryUnited States
StateTennessee
Locations
Weapons
  • 1995: Box cutter, meat cleaver and chunk of asphalt
  • 2001: shoe-string
Date apprehended
January 14, 1995; 31 years ago (1995-01-14)
Imprisoned atDebra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer who is incarcerated on death row in Tennessee. In 1995, when she was 18, Pike murdered her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. Pike and two friends led Slemmer into the woods, where they tortured and killed her. In 1996, at the age of 20, Pike was sentenced to death, making her one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period.[1] She is scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026.[2] If carried out, she will be the 19th woman executed nationwide since 1976 and the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years, since the hanging of Eve Martin.[2][3]

Pike's sentence remains controversial, as experts have opined that her legal defense failed to present mitigating evidence at trial, including the effect of her youth and childhood trauma on her decision-making abilities.[4][5]

Early life

Pike was born on March 10, 1976 in Beckley, West Virginia. According to Liliana Segura of The Intercept, she was raped by a neighbor at the age of 11, and her criminal record began when she was arrested and incarcerated at the Swannanoa Juvenile Evaluation Center in 1991 following an attempt to break into a community center. In the months leading up to the arrest, North Carolina social services had removed Pike from her home after her mother's live-in boyfriend had physically and sexually abused her. During her time at Swannanoa, she became a teacher's assistant and earned her GED. She was released from the juvenile center in March 1993 and enrolled in a Jobs Corps program in Knoxville, Tennessee.[6]

Murder of Colleen Slemmer

While living at the Job Corps training campus, Pike became convinced that fellow students Colleen Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp.[7][8] Along with her friend 18-year-old Shadolla Peterson, Pike planned to lure Colleen Slemmer to an isolated, abandoned steam plant near the University of Tennessee campus.[7] On January 12, 1995, Pike, Shipp,[8] Peterson, and Slemmer signed out of the dormitory and proceeded to the woods, where Slemmer was told they wanted to make peace by offering her some marijuana.[7] Upon arrival at the secluded location, Slemmer was attacked by Pike and Shipp while Peterson acted as lookout. According to court testimony, for the next thirty minutes, Slemmer was taunted, beaten, and slashed. Shipp used a box cutter[9] to carve a pentagram into her chest while she was still alive.[10][11][12] Finally, Pike smashed Slemmer's skull with a large chunk of asphalt, killing her. Pike kept a piece of Slemmer's skull.[7]

Pike began to show off the piece of skull around the school, and the three were arrested within 36 hours. The log book showed that Pike, Shipp, Peterson, and Slemmer left together, and only three returned. Detectives found the piece of skull in Pike's jacket pocket. Soon after her arrest, Pike waived her Miranda rights and confessed to the police how she had participated in Slemmer's killing.[13] Even so, Pike insisted she and her co-conspirators were merely trying to scare Slemmer and their plan got out of control.[7] Slemmer's mother repeatedly asked Tennessee authorities that the fragment of skull be returned to her for proper burial, but it remained in possession of the state as evidence. Authorities stated it would not be returned while the case remained open, awaiting Pike's execution.[14] In a documentary that premiered September 2026 ahead of Pike's potential execution, Dead Woman Walking: Pike vs. Tennessee, Slemmer's mother, May Martinez, confirmed that after sixteen years of fighting and writing letters, she had received the missing skull fragment from the state of Tennessee.[15]

Trial and appeals

Trial

Pike, Shipp, and Peterson were all charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Shipp, who had turned 17 two months before the murder, was tried as an adult. Peterson, who agreed to become a witness for the prosecution, received probation after pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact.[11] The prosecution sought a death sentence for Pike and life in prison without parole for Shipp.[16]

On March 30, Pike was sentenced to death by electrocution for the murder charge and 25 years in prison for the conspiracy charge. In January 1997, Shipp was also found guilty on both counts. However, after the jury could not unanimously agree whether to sentence him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the judge sentenced him to life in prison with parole eligibility.[7] Describing Shipp as a dangerous individual, the judge imposed a consecutive 25-year sentence for his conspiracy conviction, ensuring that he would not become eligible for parole until he was in his late 40s or early 50s.[17] Shipp was denied parole in October 2025 and remains incarcerated at Northwest Correctional Complex under minimum supervision.[18]

Domestic appeals

Following the guilty verdict, Pike "launched, cancelled and then re-launched" an appeal of her conviction in the Tennessee state courts.[19] In June 2001, then again in June 2002, against the advice of her lawyers, Pike asked the courts to drop her appeal and sought to be executed via electrocution. Criminal Court Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz granted the request, and an execution date of August 19, 2002, was set. Pike soon thereafter changed her mind and on July 8, 2002, defense lawyers filed a motion to allow the appeal process to continue. This motion was denied. However, on August 2, 2002, a three-judge state appeals court panel ruled that the proceedings should be continued and the execution was not carried out.[20] In December 2008, Pike's latest request for a new trial was turned down, and she was returned to death row.[19] With this denial, Pike's allowed appeals under the rules and procedures of the State of Tennessee's criminal justice system were exhausted.[21]

In May 2014, Pike's lawyers entered an appeal in the federal court system.[22] Her lawyers sought a commutation of the sentence from death to prison on the following grounds: ineffective assistance of counsel; mental illness; and the unconstitutionality of the death penalty as administered in Tennessee. In a 61-page ruling by US District Judge Harry Sandlin Mattice Jr. issued on March 11, 2016, all grounds were rejected, and the requested commutation was denied.[23][24] On August 22, 2019, having heard the same appeal by Pike's lawyers on October 1, 2018, the three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit unanimously upheld the lower court ruling and denied relief.[25]

International appeals

Pike has sought relief from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. On November 16, 2020, Pike submitted a petition to the IACHR, alleging that the United States had violated the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.[26] Pike alleged that the United States violated her right not to be arbitrarily deprived of life, her right to equality under the law, her right (as a child) to special protection, her right to a fair trial, and her right to due process and to be free from cruel, unusual, and infamous punishment.[26]

In December 2020, the IACHR passed resolution 95/2020, which granted precautionary measures in Pike's favor.[27] The Commission determined that Pike had demonstrated the existence of a serious and urgent risk of irreparable harm to her rights, and requested that the United States adopt the necessary measures to protect Pike's life and personal integrity, refrain from carrying out her execution, ensure that her detention comply with international standards, and negotiate with her attorneys on the measures to be adopted.[27] The Commission subsequently determined that Pike's trial and conviction violated her right to a fair trial, due process, and equality before the law. The Commission called on the United States to review her case and to consider mental and intellectual disability when conducting judicial proceedings.[28]

Life on death row

After Pike's trial, the Tennessee Department of Correction adopted a policy requiring death-row inmates to be held in maximum-security conditions. As such, Pike has been held in solitary confinement since 1996.[26][29]

Pike sued the Tennessee Department of Corrections in 2022, alleging that her conditions of confinement were unequal to those of similarly-situated male inmates.[30] While male death-row inmates were allowed to socialize and work together, Pike was subject to more restrictive conditions. The State settled the lawsuit in September 2024, agreeing to equalize Pike's treatment with men on death row.[30]

Attempted murder of Patricia Jones

On August 24, 2001, Pike and inmate Natasha Cornett were accused of attacking and attempting to strangle fellow inmate Patricia Jones with a shoestring.[1] Jones had been serving a life sentence for the 1994 murder of 84-year-old Alberta Coker in Knoxville at the time of the attack.[31] Pike was convicted of attempted first degree murder on August 12, 2004.[32] Although the Tennessee Department of Corrections maintained that Cornett assisted in this crime, their investigators concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge her with helping Pike attack Jones. In 2003, Pike was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and received a 25-year sentence for the attack on Jones.[33]

Attempted prison escape

In March 2012, it was revealed Pike had made escape plans involving corrections officer Justin Heflin as well as Donald Kohut of New Jersey.[34] Kohut, a personal trainer in his 30s, had entered into a letter-writing correspondence with Pike around the beginning of 2011. By July of that year, Kohut was making the nearly 1,700 mi (2,700 km) round trip from Flemington, New Jersey, to Nashville, Tennessee, to visit Pike in person once or twice a month. Eventually, Kohut communicated an escape plan to Pike and enlisted the help of corrections officer Heflin, who agreed to participate in return for cash and gifts.[35]

Because of security concerns, the Tennessee Department of Corrections has not provided many details about the plan; however, the indictment laid out a scenario where a prison key would be traced and then a duplicate created.[36] Early in 2012, prison personnel received information about the escape plot.[35][37] This led to the attempted prison break being thwarted by a joint investigation involving the Tennessee Department of Corrections, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the New Jersey State Police.[34] According to the TBI, the plan was not very far along when uncovered, and "the jailbreak was not imminent".[35]

In March 2012, Kohut was arrested and charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit escape, while Heflin was arrested and charged with bribery, official misconduct, and conspiracy to commit escape.[38] Pike was not charged and it was unclear to the investigators if she was a participant in the conspiracy beyond her awareness of the scheme.[35]

On May 31, 2012, Kohut was sentenced to seven years in prison to be served at the Tennessee State Northeast Correctional Complex.[39] Heflin, who cooperated with authorities after his arrest, served no prison time, but was terminated from his job with the Tennessee Department of Corrections.[35]

Scheduled execution

On August 27, 2020, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery's office requested the Tennessee Supreme Court to set an execution date for Pike. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee and various other factors, Pike's attorneys were granted extensions by the court, allowing them more time to argue as to why Pike should not be executed. The state did not oppose the extensions. On June 7, 2021, Pike's attorneys filed a motion to oppose the execution date and request a Certificate of Commutation on the grounds of mental illness. The motion was denied.[40]

Before November 2022, Pike had completely exhausted all appeals processes. However, in November 2022, the state Supreme Court found the state's law for juveniles automatically sentenced to life in prison without a chance at parole was unconstitutional. (See Knoxville case State v. Booker for the complete ruling.) On August 30, 2023,[citation needed] lawyers for Pike used this ruling in an attempt to reopen her bid to have her 1996 conviction and sentence thrown out. Pike's lawyers argued her young age and mental health struggles at the time of the killing should spare her from execution.[41]

In October 2023, Knox County Criminal Court Judge Scott Green denied Pike's request, saying the November 2022 Supreme Court ruling did not apply to her. "The Booker case addressed only juvenile offenders in Tennessee," Judge Green noted. "The high court, in the opinion written by now retired Justice Sharon Lee, specifically addressed the question of juveniles, not adults. This ruling applies only to juvenile homicide offenders – not to adult offenders," the decision states, and Pike was legally an adult, Green wrote.[42]

On September 30, 2025, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a death warrant for Pike, scheduling her execution to take place exactly one year later, on September 30, 2026. Pike can choose between electrocution and lethal injection.[43] In June 2026, following the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers, Pike filed a challenge to the execution protocol, alleging that the state was unable to guarantee that her execution would comply with the U.S. Constitution. Pike alleged that her diagnosis of thrombocytosis would complicate placement of an IV line and increase her risk of suffering during the execution. She also alleged that the use of an all-male execution team would force her to relive her traumatic history of sexual assault.[44]

In August 2026, a special master for the Tennessee Supreme Court filed a report declining to intervene in Pike's execution, saying that her legal team did not convince him about the alleged risks that Pike faces in the process due to her long-standing health problems related to PTSD and a blood-clotting disease. Pike's attorneys stated that those health issues could complicate her execution and cause her pain and suffering, violating her constitutional rights.[45] In the alternative, Pike sought to have her execution carried out via hanging due to her belief that a botched hanging would be significantly less painful than a botched lethal injection. The state declined this request because hanging is not a legally approved method of execution in Tennessee and the state's death chamber is not equipped to carry out hangings.[46]

Pike's attorneys subsequently challenged Tennessee's lethal injection protocol in the Tennessee Supreme Court arguing that executing her via lethal injection with her thrombocytosis condition constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Pike also further argued that being subjected to observation by male guards in her final hours, being physically restrained to a gurney, and having intravenous lines established near her chest and groin areas would subject her to psychological harm due to her underlying bipolar disorder and PTSD from past sexual abuse. The Tennessee Supreme Court rejected this constitutional challenge on September 23, 2026, a week prior to Pike's scheduled execution.[47][48] Pike's attorneys also filed a 226-page clemency petition with Tennessee governor Bill Lee asking him to commute her sentence to life imprisonment.[47][49] On September 28, 2026, Governor Lee denied Pike's clemency petition.[50] Additionally, Pike sought constitutional relief from her death sentence in front of the U.S. Supreme Court,[48] but on September 29 the court rejected Pike's request, leaving her without any appeals.[51]

Pike has requested that an all-female execution team be in place to carry out her sentence to minimize the risks of increased psychological harm that Pike contends she would suffer at the hands of an all-male execution team because of her PTSD resulting from past sexual abuse.[49] In response to some of the issues raised in Pike's legal challenges, Tennessee has allowed certain accommodations deviating from standard execution protocol. Female corrections officers will transport Pike to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution where executions are conducted in Tennessee the day prior to the execution. While on death watch, the state will attempt to have only female corrections officers observe Pike and she will be given privacy screens for her use during dressing, showers, and using the restroom. Pike will also be allowed to meet with a spiritual adviser in the 12 hours preceding the execution and her adviser has been given permission to accompany Pike in the death chamber during the execution.[47] Pike declined to select a last meal on the eve of her execution.[52]

If Pike is executed as planned at 10:00 a.m. CDT (11:00 a.m. EDT) on September 30, 2026, she will be the 19th woman executed nationwide since 1976 and the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in roughly 200 years.[53][49][54][55]

Reactions

Her scheduled execution had received many criticisms due to Pike's mental state, brought to the public's attention by the highly publicized trial of Lindsay Clancy, with Pike saying she felt kinship with Lindsay Clancy.[56] "I feel a kinship with Lindsay. We are both females who got into trouble because of uniquely female issues. One thing is different, however, is that times have changed a lot on awareness of women's issues since I was put on trial. I am pleased she received a mistrial and is getting the help she needs. There are so many women who don't get the help they need: me and others."[57][58][59]

Several NGOs and human rights organizations have spoken out against Pike's execution. Cornell University's Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide has characterized Pike's request for commutation as "consistent with Tennessee's treatment of Tadaryl Shipp".[60] Amnesty International has also called for a halt to Pike's execution.[61][62]

United Nations Special Rapporteurs Reem Alsalem (violence against women and girls), Pau Pérez-Sales (torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment), Morris Tidball-Binz (extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions), and Mariângela Batista Galvão Simão (right to physical and mental health) have called on the governments of the United States and Tennessee to prevent Pike's execution.[5]

Several members of the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women and girls (Claudia Flores, Ivana Kostić, Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, and Laura Nyirinkindi) have also called on authorities not to execute Pike.[5]

The Advocates for Human Rights have called Pike's sentence "unjust and unethical".[63]

In September 2026, Slemmer's mother expressed support for Pike's execution, saying, "She did the crime. I think she should pay for it [...] I would feel better that she felt the same pain that Colleen did" and "I just want [Pike] down so I can end it, relieve my daughter, so she [Slemmer] finally can be resting."[64]

The murder of Colleen Slemmer was featured on the TV shows Deadly Women, For My Man, Killer Kids, Martinis and Murder, Death by Gossip with Wendy Williams, Snapped: Killer Couples, and Mean Girl Murders.[65] Christa Pike was also featured in a season one episode of World's Most Dangerous Criminals. Patricia Springer wrote A Love To Die For, a book about the murder.[66]

See also

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