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The Economic Times
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Divyadeep Singh

Christa Pike, first woman to face execution in Tennessee in 200 years, was sexually abused as toddler and raped twice; fresh details emerge

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Fresh details have emerged about Christa Pike, the 50-year-old who has been on death row for over three decades and is set for execution on Wednesday (September 30, 2026). According to Pike’s attorney, Assistant Federal Defender Stephen Ferrell, she was sexually assaulted and raped twice. Pike and her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, who was 17 at the time, were convicted of killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995. She was their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps.

According to prosecutors, Pike, who was 18 then, was afraid Slemmer was a romantic rival and lured her to a secluded area where she and her boyfriend tortured and killed Slemmer, news agency AP reported. Now 50, she is set to be put to death in what would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years.

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