Tennessee Is Preparing to Execute Its Only Woman on Death Row

Tennessee is less than two weeks away from an execution that could become a rare moment in the state’s history.

Christa Pike, 50, is scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. Central Time on Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. She is the only woman currently on Tennessee’s death row.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. The crime happened when Pike was 18…

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