Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing a classmate in Knoxville in 1995 at age 18, is set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years after Governor Lee denied clemency on September 28, 2026. Her lawyers have documented evidence of childhood sexual and physical abuse and have petitioned the state supreme court for a stay.
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Lawyers for Pike, who killed a fellow student in 1995, say she should get clemency and would not be sentenced to death if the crime happened today.
Lawyers for Pike, who killed a fellow student in 1995, say she should get clemency and would not be sentenced to death if the crime happened today.
Whither the "Barbarian"? Christa Pike to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years - but her defence say she's a victim too www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Lawyers for Pike, who killed a fellow student in 1995, say she should get clemency and would not be sentenced to death if the crime happened today.
Pike's lawyers have since uncovered documented proof of her childhood sexual and physical abuse. She was reportedly raped several times as a toddler and throughout her teenage years.
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stay Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. Pike and her boyfriend were co