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Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Marvieduke(op): 7:47am On Sep 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QExeUVXOao?si=C4W3cGBI0CJq-suA

The woman in the photo is Christa Gail Pike. She is currently the only woman on Tennessee's death row and, having been sentenced at just 20 years old, is often noted as the youngest woman ever sentenced to death in the U.S.

The crime occurred in January 1995 when Pike was an 18-year-old attending a Job Corps program in Knoxville, Tennessee .

Driven by jealousy involving her boyfriend, Pike and two accomplices (her boyfriend and another student) lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer into the woods. For over about 30 minutes, they tortured and beat Slemmer, carving a pentagram into her chest. Pike delivered the fatal blow by striking her skull with a chunk of asphalt .

Prosecutors described it as an act of "extraordinarily brutal" cruelty.

After nearly 30 years of appeals, Pike's execution is currently scheduled for September 30, 2026 . If carried out, she would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years .

Though her lawyers are currently fighting the sentence through a clemency petition and a religious-liberty lawsuit regarding the lethal injection process.

Do you think she should be executed?



Tennessee woman, Christa Pike, makes special request days before execution

Christa Pike has “horrible nightmares.” Her “nerves are shredded.”

In eight days, the 50-year-old who killed her friend when she was a teenager will have her worst nightmares realized inside the execution chamber in Nashville, Tennessee.

Pike is set to become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since 1819 if Governor Bill Lee does not put a stop to the scheduled execution before 10 a.m. local time on September 30.

Her lawyers, who filed a 226-page clemency petition, are still waiting for a last-minute reprieve.

Under the state’s updated lethal injection protocol, a single-drug chemical dose of pentobarbital will enter her system while she is strapped to a gurney.

The reason, her lawyers say, is that she has post-traumatic stress disorder from the widely documented abuse she suffered at the hands of men as a young girl, including when she was just two years old.

They also say her death by lethal injection will be “prolonged and agonizing” because she has a rare blood disorder that could make finding a vein more difficult and affect the way she reacts to the drug.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/22/us-news/tennesse-woman-christa-pike-makes-special-request-days-before-execution/

Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by KAM3KAZI: 8:11am On Sep 23
No pity am because say she be woman oo
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by illicit(m):
So they let her live for another 30 years

Well she's 48 now

She is fit enough for the ride...
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Mattswaggz: 11:06am On Sep 23
Well deserved.....off the monster and let her go and meet her mentor in the abyss.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by ARISHEM:
A report even said she was a victim of child sexual abuse, multiple rapes, and parental abandonment and neglect and had first attempted to take her own life when she was twelve. She thereafter associated with bad and occultic people in her teenage years in school.
I heard after committing the deed she was showing a piece of her victim's skull all around the school.
Even in prison she was documented as being violent.

Any person with that kind of childhood has a strong tendency to become deviant when growing up.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by SmartMaster001: 11:06am On Sep 23
Uncontrolled negative emotion caused all this. Just make sure you use the remaining days left to make peace with your Maker.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by emmabest2000(m): 11:08am On Sep 23
To die is to live

Everyone will die someday

Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Afriifa(m): 11:08am On Sep 23
In my opinion, she has already being prison for so long enough. Thus, a life sentence is more decent than killing. She was 18 years old acting on perhaps impulses. 30 years behind bars already in regret.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by bigpicture001: 11:08am On Sep 23
The family no try, them for bribe warden allow a man go give hr belle for prison...do am 4 times ,she don get family
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by NaijaLandGuy(m): 11:09am On Sep 23
What's the point keeping her for so long only to execute her now.
She shouldn't be killed but given another punishment.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Wealthyonos(m): 11:09am On Sep 23
The consequences of yesterday's sin.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by arceem(m): 11:10am On Sep 23
It will cruel to call her Animal , because most Animals are not as wild as we think

This is a Beast , A demon ….in human form..
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by frankblinkz(m): 11:11am On Sep 23
Even the spirit of the boyfriend will want to tamper justice with Mercy.
Please forgive her
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Teelabo(m): 11:11am On Sep 23
What a caged and wasted life
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Heffalump(m): 11:13am On Sep 23
She was young and naived then, I think she's now a changed person as adult. Her sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Sleekfingers: 11:14am On Sep 23
Afriifa:
In my opinion, she has already being prison for so long
So they should let her go?
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Hemanwel(m): 11:14am On Sep 23
I thought they said the US does not have a death sentence in their law?
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Kpongolo: 11:14am On Sep 23
So this woman never fvck better prieck since the 90s
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Sleekfingers: 11:15am On Sep 23
bigpicture001:
The family no try, them for bribe warden allow a man go give hr belle for prison...do am 4 times ,she don get family
And the warden won't be trace?
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by cr7lomo: 11:17am On Sep 23
frankblinkz:
Even the spirit of the boyfriend will want to tamper justice with Mercy.
Please forgive her
Read...Read ....Read ...Read....Read!!!
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Afriifa(m): 11:17am On Sep 23
Sleekfingers:
So they should let her go?
no, let her serve life than killing her
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Fiscus105(m):
Even if she escapes execution, her productive life already shattered.

Close to 50, will she start journey of life afresh?

Will she be looking for job when she is supposed to be preparing for retirement?

Start making babies when she is supposed to be granny.

If you cannot control your emotions,(anger jealousy, love, hatred, bitterness), it would surely send you to where you don't like.

I imagine what would be going on, in the mind Abudumutalub Farouk, son of Nigeria billionaire, servicing life jail in USA's prison now.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Marvieduke(op): 11:20am On Sep 23
Afriifa:
no, let her serve life than killing her
Yes I support your opinion
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Sleekfingers: 11:20am On Sep 23
Hemanwel:
I thought they said the US does not have a death sentence in their law?
Then you don't know jack about the United States........ obviously, you don't read or listen to news around the world. ..

In last 25 years , they have executed more than One thousand people ( 1,000).
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Afriifa(m): 11:21am On Sep 23
Marvieduke:
Yes I support your opinion
Thank You
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Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Hemanwel(m): 11:23am On Sep 23
Sleekfingers:
Then you don't know jack about the United States........ obviously, you don't read or listen to news around the world. ..

In last 25 years , they have executed more than One thousand people ( 1,000).
Are you for real?? This is serious!
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by higgs: 11:25am On Sep 23
She definitely should be executed.People who don't value the lives of others should not expect their own lives to be valued by society. Rubbish
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Belurved1(m): 11:25am On Sep 23
People talk this way when they have nothing to lose. But if your own sister were the victim, would you still have reacted this way? It’s easy to speak carelessly when you’re not the one affected.


Afriifa:
In my opinion, she has already being prison for so long
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Stolen: 11:27am On Sep 23
MEANWHILE NIGERIA IS STILL HOUSING KILLERS OVER HERE.


GROWN ASS MEN COMMITING HENIOUS CRIME




THIS ONE IS A TEENAGER NOT PROPERLY TRAINED AND ACTED OUT OF JEALOUSY.


FROM THEN TILL NOW NO FORGIVENESS AND EVENTUALLY THEY GROWN TIRED OF FEEDING AND HOUSING HER SO THEY ARE READY TO SHIP PACKAGE TO THE OTHER SIDE.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by Eba50: 11:28am On Sep 23
E don tay women dey fight very p***k na him put this one for trouble after killing her friend wey her guy sample her fresh meat
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by IMPARTIAL: 11:29am On Sep 23
She should still pay for the crime... Maybe life imprisonment, not a death sentence.
Re: Christa Pike: American Woman On Death Row To Be Executed September 30 by brainycaleb(m): 11:30am On Sep 23
Her actions was that of a very stupid child then, she has learnt her lessons, it's no use killing her! Let her work with the government to educate younger girls on the dangers of things that can get them into prisons!
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