Christa Pike to be executed for 1995 murder of fellow teen

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Christa Pike, convicted of a 1995 murder, is scheduled for execution by the state of Tennessee. She was found guilty of brutally killing a fellow teenager, Colleen Slemmer, at a Tennessee Job Corps center. Her execution date, the first for a woman in the state in nearly 200 years, is set for this year. Pike remains on death row after exhausting her appeals over the decades since the crime.

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