{"id":43879,"date":"2025-10-09T04:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=43879"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:52:03","slug":"us-state-will-execute-a-woman-for-the-first-time-in-200-years-inside-her-chilling-crime","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/popularnews.pw\/?page_id=43879","title":{"rendered":"US state will execute a woman for the first time in 200 years: Inside her chilling crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-56604\" class=\"post-56604 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>It\u2019s been nearly three decades since Christa Gail Pike brutally murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee \u2014 and now, the state has set the date when she\u2019ll pay the ultimate price.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div id=\"news-saga.com_responsive_1\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/news-saga.com\/news-saga.com_responsive_1_1\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" sandbox=\"\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"0\" data-origheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Tennessee Supreme Court has scheduled Pike\u2019s execution for September 30, 2026. If carried out, she\u2019ll become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and only the 19th woman in modern U.S. history to face the death chamber.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-e1023aed5e40f682798d325e11dc945e\" class=\"newsner-e1023aed5e40f682798d325e11dc945e newsner-bluebillywig_instream\">\n<div id=\"newsner-1815184183\" class=\"newsner-bluebillywig_instream\">\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"bb-iawr-newsner_english_playout-1601396675571335\" class=\"bb_iawr\">\n<div id=\"bb-wr-newsner_english_playout-1601396675571335\" class=\"bb-media bb_wrapper bb-muted bb-phase-init bb-mode-video bb-pendingplay\" data-flags=\"{}\" data-softembargoremainingtime=\"0\" data-sid=\"e6DPxiVMZmWM\" data-isready=\"true\" data-autoplaynextremainingtime=\"0\">\n<div class=\"bb-layer bb-content-layer\">\n<div class=\"bb-fitme bb-head-layer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bb-fitme bb-poster-layer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><img class=\"bb-poster-image bb-poster-image-1\" alt=\"\" \/><img class=\"bb-poster-image bb-poster-image-2\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"bb-fitme bb-timeline-layer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bb-layer bb-subtitle-layer\">\n<div class=\"bb-subtitledisplay\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bb-layer bb-commercial-layer\">\n<div class=\"bb-fitme bb-head-layer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bb-layer bb-skin-layer bb-muted bb-phase-init bb-mode-video bb-pendingplay\">\n<div class=\"bb-skin-container phase-init svelte-ft9qq1 playing\" lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"0\" data-cy=\"skin-mode-main\" aria-label=\"Blue Billywig video player. 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According to court records, she even bragged afterward \u2014 showing classmates a fragment of Slemmer\u2019s skull she kept as a trophy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">\n<div id=\"news-saga.com_responsive_3\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/news-saga.com\/news-saga.com_responsive_3_1\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" sandbox=\"\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origwidth=\"0\" data-origheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When a groundskeeper discovered Slemmer\u2019s body the next day, it was so badly beaten he first thought it belonged to an animal.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-showed-up-giggling-at-the-crime-scene\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Showed up giggling at the crime scene<\/h2>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>The brutal murder drew massive media attention and became known as the \u201cJob Corps murder,\u201d since both the victim and the killer were enrolled in the program.<\/p>\n<p>Several hours after the body was discovered and the area taped off, Pike showed up again at the crime scene. She spoke with officers, asking if authorities had identified the victim and where Slemmer\u2019s body had been found. According to one officer, Pike seemed almost thrilled by the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was giggling and moving around,\u201d an officer testified during the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Pike was arrested the very next day.<\/p>\n<p>In March 1996, she was sentenced to death. The seven-man, five-woman jury found her guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. According to news reports at the time, she broke down in uncontrollable sobs when the sentence was handed down in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I please hug my mom before I go. Please let me just hug my mom,\u201d Pike said, as her mother, Carissa Hansen, sat crying behind her in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-her-mother-s-tragic-confession\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Her mother\u2019s tragic confession<\/h2>\n<p>Hansen had testified earlier in the trial, admitting she had been a poor mother who allowed Pike to have a live-in boyfriend at just 14 years old. In an effort to bond with her daughter, she confessed she had even shared drugs with her and smoked marijuana together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should be the one in her seat,\u201d Hansen said. \u201cI should be punished for her crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christa Gail Pike\u2019s case is one of only 48 involving women currently on death row nationwide \u2014 compared to nearly 2,100 men.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1976, just 18 women have been executed in the U.S., making Pike\u2019s case extraordinarily rare.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-tags\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"entry-footer\">\n<div class=\"share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-box clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been nearly three decades since Christa Gail Pike brutally murdered 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee \u2014 and now, the state has set the date when&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43880,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43879","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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