More than 30 years after she brutally murdered a classmate over a romantic rivalry, it is planned that Christ Gail Pike, the only woman in Tennessee’s Death Row, will be executed on 30 September next year.
If it is done, Pike would become the first woman to be executed in the state for more than 200 years, and only 19. A woman who has been facing this fate in the United States since 1976.
What did Christ Gail Pike do?
Pike’s crime dates back to January 1995, when she was a student in Knoxville Job Corps, a career training program.
At the age of 18, Pike began to walk with a 17 -year -old boy in the same program, and eventually feared that her 19 -year -old classmate Colleen Slemmer would tear him away from her.
In a spoiled attempt to prevent romantic coup, Pike and her friend and her friend lured 12 January Slemmer to Knoxville Woods and continued torture and murder.
The mere brutality of crime – Romer was stabbed, beaten, bludgeone for almost an hour, and in the US a pentagram was carved into the chest – in the US.
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If it wasn’t all, after breaking Slemmer’s head in a large piece of asphalt, Pike continued to keep a piece of her skull and show it around the campus.
Three days after the crime, she was arrested and charged with the murder of the first degree and a conspiracy for committing the first degree, in March 1996 was found guilty in both numbers and sentenced to death.
However, two of Pike’s co -clutters – a friend of Tadaryl Shipp and a friend Shadolla Peterson – hit the death penalty, and Shipp was eligible for conditional release in November this year.
Meanwhile, Peterson, who claims that prosecutors kept the lookout tower during the brutal murder, testified against Pike during the court proceedings and were sentenced to probation.
What did Pike had about crime?
Although her lawyers tried to get her out of a series of death, Pike said in a letter to Tennessean in 2023 Has taken responsibility For murder, but she added that it has changed “drastically” in 30+ years since the brutal crime.
“I was mentally ill for 18 years. Old child. It took me many years to even realize the severity of what I did. Even more to accept how many lives I have influenced (sic). I took the life of someone’s child, sisters.
After spending 27 years in what her lawyers claim to have been effectively lonely imprisonment, given that she was the only woman in the state of death, Pike’s lawyers claimed that if she were to court today, the death penalty would never have been issued.
“Christino’s childhood was full of physical and sexual abuse and neglect. With time and treatment of bipolar and post -traumatic stress disorders, which were not diagnosed only a few years later, Christ became a thoughtful woman with deep remorse,” US US today. cited Pike’s lawyers say.
49 -year -old lawyers are expected to attack punishment and believe that they deserve life in prison without the possibility of release, instead of the death penalty.
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