US state will execute a woman for the first time in 200 years: Inside her chilling crime
It’s been nearly three decades since Christa Gail Pike brutally murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee — and now, the state has set the date when she’ll pay the ultimate price. The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled Pike’s execution for September 30, 2026. If carried out, she’ll become the first woman executed in Tennessee…