Tennessee court sets execution date for state’s only woman on death row

Christa Pike is the only woman on death row in the state of Tennessee - (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP)

The Tennessee Supreme Court have set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row.

Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow Knoxville Job Corps student. Slemmer, 18, was stabbed and beaten by Pike and Tadaryl Shipp, Pike’s boyfriend at the time, on the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural campus.