In 1995, Christa Pike and her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp tormented and took the life of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in a remote wooded area on the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus.
Pike later admitted to the crime in court and became the first woman to be sentenced to capital punishment in Tennessee in 200 years.
On September 30, 2026, Pike was taken to the lethal injection chamber of Riverbend Maximum Security Institution and given two doses of pentobarbital, a powerful sedative.
