Tennessee set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years

Name: Tennessee set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years
Uploaded: 2026-09-29T20:31:46Z
Duration: 35 s
Channel: ABC News
Description: Christa Pike is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. Pike and her boyfriend were convicted in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps.

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Christa Pike is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. Pike and her boyfriend were convicted in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps.

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Tennessee set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years

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