(The Center Square) – Christa Pike was 18 years old when she was charged in the 1995 death of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville.
Thirty-one years and a murder conviction later, the execution of Tennessee’s only female inmate on death row is sparking protests and campaigns to save her life. She is to be executed Wednesday.
Slemmer’s mother is planning to be in Nashville for Pike’s execution. She told Nashville’s WBIR that the publicity surrounding Pike, now 50, has taken the attention off of her daughter…