Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Christa Pike’s sentence will likely stay the same, despite her failed execution last month. Pike ...

A murder convict who survived a botched execution attempt in Tennessee has described the constant physical pain she suffers a ...

Christa Pike was a student at the Knoxville Job Corps, a federal job training program, when she brutally killed fellow student Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

Christa Pike survived two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital during a failed execution attempt. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of fellow Job Corps student Colleen ...

Mississippi death row inmate Lisa Jo Chamberlin argues gender bias evidence evoking negative stereotypes of women improperly ...

Alabama has 154 death row inmates, but only five are women. Here's what to know.

Christa Pike is set to die Sept. 30 for torturing and murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995 Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

The first woman sentenced to death in Tennessee in 200 years said she is “at peace” before her rare execution — as the state’s governor declined to get involved in her last-ditch bid for clemency.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday night cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death ...

Pike was set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years for her role in the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer ...

Author Lawrence Wright thought he knew the Texas justice system. But a closer look at the lives of women on death row made him question who deserves the death penalty.

Wright’s reporting initially resulted in a 20,000-word magazine story, “ The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’ Death ...