Christa Pike, then 18, tortured and killed another young woman. In 2024, Pike was removed from de facto solitary confinement.

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, was recently featured on an episode of Investigation Discovery's TV series "Mean Girl Murders." Pike, 48, was convicted of murder for the 1995 ...

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, was recently featured on an episode of Investigation Discovery's TV series "Mean Girl Murders." Pike, 48, was convicted of murder for the ...

Christa Pike, who earned her spot as Tennessee's only female death row inmate by stabbing and beating her classmate to death – then nearly executing an elaborate prison break – was featured on ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knox County judge has rejected a bid to vacate the death sentence of Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee and the youngest American woman to be ...

Christa Gail Pike claimed she did it for love ... Now 42, she remains the only woman on Tennessee's death row. Pike, Slemmer and other students at the Knoxville Job Corps Center "dabbled ...

and Tennessee each have one female inmate on death row. Christa Pike was a high school dropout when she smashed in the head of a romantic rival and kept a piece of the girl’s skull. She was ...

On Aug. 27, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery’s office asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. Her attorneys ...

(AP) -- The inmate at the center of a death row escape plot is expected back ... security cell block.Officials say 36-year-old Christa Pike says she received ineffective counsel.

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row, was convicted in the 1995 torture death of fellow Knoxville Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer, 19. Pike's attorneys secured a settlement with ...