When Christa Pike tortured and killed her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995, support for the death penalty was near its peak in the United States.

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 ...

A female Tennessee death row inmate has asked that she be killed by an all-female execution squad after she was convicted for murdering her classmate more than 30 years ago. Christa Pike was sentenced ...

The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.

A former Knoxville police chief recalled Christa Pike being "ruthless" and "almost giddy" while describing Colleen Slemmer's ...

A federal appeals court granted a short stay to Pike, who was sentenced to death for murdering classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995 ...

Christa Pike survived two lethal injections during her attempted execution in Tennessee. Here's what happened and what could happen to her next.

With just days remaining before her scheduled execution, Christa Pike has made a special request. She has asked Tennessee officials to keep men off the team that would carry out her execution, should ...

What crime did Christa Pike commit? What to know about the gruesome murder that landed her on death row as she prepares to be ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his record-tying 19th death warrant of the year, this one for an inmate who killed his cellmate as an escape to better jailhouse conditions given to death row prisoners.

Death penalty expert Carolyn Strange tracks the modern history of executions in the United States on The Conversation Weekly ...