{"id":6659,"date":"2026-06-01T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:05:55","slug":"tennessee-sets-historic-execution-date-for-christa-pike-the-states-only-female-death-row-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/?p=6659","title":{"rendered":"TENNESSEE SETS HISTORIC EXECUTION DATE FOR CHRISTA PIKE, THE STATE\u2019S ONLY FEMALE DEATH ROW INMATE,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASHVILLE, TN \u2014 The Tennessee Supreme Court has officially set an execution date for&nbsp;<strong>Christa Gail Pike<\/strong>, the only woman currently on the state\u2019s death row, scheduling her execution by lethal injection for&nbsp;<strong>September 30, 2026<\/strong>. If carried out as planned, Pike will become the&nbsp;<strong>first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years<\/strong>, marking a rare and historically significant moment in the state\u2019s use of capital punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youngest Woman on Death Row: Christa Pike |  World\u2019s Most Evil Prisoners\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqDhXKrNs4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pike, now 49 years old, was convicted in&nbsp;<strong>1996<\/strong>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<strong>1995 murder and torture<\/strong>&nbsp;of 19\u2011year\u2011old&nbsp;<strong>Colleen Slemmer<\/strong>, a fellow student at the Job Corps training center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike was&nbsp;<strong>18 at the time of the crime<\/strong>, making her one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6660\" style=\"width:735px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-11.png 512w, https:\/\/duye.it.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-11-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to her 1995 conviction, Pike also received a separate&nbsp;<strong>25\u2011year sentence<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2004 for the attempted murder of a fellow inmate, Patricia Jones, during an incident at the women\u2019s correctional facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tennessee Supreme Court\u2019s death warrant, issued on&nbsp;<strong>September 30, 2025<\/strong>, sets Pike\u2019s execution date exactly one year later. If carried out as scheduled, Pike\u2019s execution would mark the first time since the early 19th century that the state has put a woman to death under its capital punishment laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Tennessee resumes executions after a pause caused by concerns over lethal injection drug protocols, Pike\u2019s upcoming execution \u2014 along with dates set for several other death row inmates \u2014 highlights ongoing national discussions over the application of the death penalty and its role in contemporary criminal justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, TN \u2014 The Tennessee Supreme Court has officially set an execution date for&nbsp;Christa Gail Pike, the only woman currently on the state\u2019s death row, scheduling her execution by lethal &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}