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Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
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 ...
Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 226 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
Her attorneys argued a recent Tennessee Supreme Court decision showed age should be considered in sentencing, even for non-juveniles.
The second woman, Christa Pike, who was convicted in 1996 for having tortured to death a fellow Job Corps dormitory resident, remains on death row. In 2023, Tennessee was debating about using firing squad. [11] [12] In 2024, Tennessee saw moves to allow the death penalty for defendants convicted of child rape. [13]
A Tennessee man behind bars for murdering a mother and daughter was freed from death row after a judge agreed he was mentally disabled.
DJRC, the state's primary women's correctional facility, houses women of all custody levels. The prison serves as the state's new female prisoner intake and classification center, and it also houses all female death row inmates. [2] There is currently only one female on death row in the state of Tennessee, Christa Pike. Women on death row are ...