A federal court has denied a request to release and overturn the death penalty conviction for Christa Gail Pike , a former Knoxville resident who was sentenced two decades ago for the brutal. As the only woman sentenced to death in Tennessee, Christa Pike has spent years living in something akin to solitary confinement at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center northwest of downtown Nashville. — The only woman on Tennessee’s death row is asking the court to reconsider her death sentence. Christa Pike was convicted in 1996 after she and two other people were convicted of torturing. The Tennessee Supreme Court on Sept. 12 ruled it would not hear Pike’s case challenging her death sentence , which hinged on the claim that she was too young at the time of the crime to be fairly sentenced to be executed. In 1996, Christa Gail Pike was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Collen Slemmer on the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus. She is now 45 years old, but she was 18 years old when she committed the crime. Her attorneys filed a motion to reopen her petition for post- conviction relief on Wednesday. Christa Pike , the only woman in Tennessee sentenced to death, has been adapting to increased levels of socialization after being removed from de facto solitary confinement last year, according. In this capital case, Christa Gail Pike was found guilty of first - degree murder and conspiracy to commit the same. The jury identified two aggravating circumstances: the murder was especially heinous and was committed to prevent prosecution.
Could Christa Pike's Conviction Be Wrong?
A federal court has denied a request to release and overturn the death penalty conviction for Christa Gail Pike , a former Knoxville resident who was sentenced ...
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