Her execution date has now been set.
Christa Gail Pike is scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026, for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee. If carried out, she would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and only the 19th woman executed in the United States in the modern era. Pike was 18…