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Tennessee prepares to execute Christa Pike for the murder of Colleen Slemmer

timesfreepress.com · 11hShare

Over the course of three days in August, Christa Pike watched as lawyers and expert witnesses in a Knoxville courtroom meticulously analyzed the abuse she suffered as a child and the different methods the state could use to kill her. Attending by way of a video call from the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, the only woman on Tennessee's death row hovered over the proceedings on a projector screen as testimony moved from the rapes that began before she was in kindergarten to the question of whether she would suffer more during a hanging or a lethal injection.

First report: When will Christa Pike be executed? Inside shocking Tennessee murder case as UN experts intervene — hindustantimes.com, 1d