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36 Minuten
Christa and her attorneys grapple with a recent announcement by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
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28 Minuten
Beth and Sarah talk to Colleen’s mother about whether justice is even possible in this case.
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27 Minuten
Defending “the worst of the worst” can take a sizable emotional toll–but it also reinforces a sense of shared humanity.
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29 Minuten
As the decades-long effort to overturn her death sentence runs out of time, Christa and her legal team try to prove that she’s a changed person.
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24 Minuten
Christa looks back on her early years on death row when she struggled with undiagnosed mental health issues and the role it played in the fight to save her life.
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On a January night in 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike and two
other teenagers lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer to a secluded
area near the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. They taunted,
beat, and slashed Colleen, carving a pentagram into her chest,
before Christa picked up a piece of concrete and smashed
Colleen’s skull, killing her. Those salacious details stood out
during a national Satanic Panic over ritual abuse and suburban
cults. The Knoxville News Sentinel later accused Christa of
killing “for love and Satan.” She was convicted of first-degree
murder and sentenced to death by electrocution—one of the
youngest women ever to be sentenced to death in the United
States.
Thirty years later, Christa is still alive, incarcerated at a
Nashville prison and the only woman on death row in Tennessee.
She has spent much of her adult life in solitary confinement. In
the decades since the murder, evolving understanding about brain
science and trauma have cast Christa’s wildly violent act—and
death sentence—in a new light. We now know that the brain of an
18-year-old remains underdeveloped and impulsive. Christa has a
horrific history of abuse, violence, and family neglect; the
first time she attempted suicide, she was 9 years old. That kind
of trauma can arrest healthy development, leading some young
adults down a disastrous path.
As Christa approaches her final appeals, a team of state and
federal defenders are urgently trying to save Christa’s life. Her
date of execution could be set any time. If executed, she will be
the first woman killed by Tennessee in almost 200 years. Should a
woman who committed a violent crime as a damaged teenager be
granted a chance at rehabilitation? And is justice best served
through retribution or mercy?
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