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In December 2008, Pike's latest request for a new trial was turned down and she was returned to death row. [8] With this denial Pike's allowed appeals under the rules and procedures of the State of Tennessee's criminal justice system were exhausted. [10] In May 2014, Pike's lawyers entered an appeal in the federal court system. [11]
Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, was recently featured on an episode of Investigation Discovery's TV series "Mean Girl Murders.". Pike, 48, was convicted of murder for the ...
Christa Pike will remain on death row after a Knox County judge this week denied her motion to reopen her appeal and reduce her sentence.. Pike, 47, is the only woman on death row in Tennessee and ...
Time on death row Other; Christa Pike: In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike lured out her fellow Job Corps trainee, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, to an isolated section of the University of Tennessee agricultural campus, spurred on by the belief that Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Pike bashed her head with a chunk of ...
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 87 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.
On August 24, 2001, Cornett and death row inmate Christa Pike allegedly attacked fellow prisoner Patricia Jones, nearly strangling Jones to death with a shoelace after Pike and Jones were placed in a holding cell with Cornett during a fire alarm. Although the Department of Corrections believed that Cornett was involved, investigators found ...
A Tennessee man behind bars for murdering a mother and daughter was freed from death row after a judge agreed he was mentally disabled. Tennessee inmate freed from death row due to intellectual ...
The prison serves as the state's new female prisoner intake and classification center, and it also houses all female death row inmates. [2] There is currently only one female on death row in the state of Tennessee, Christa Pike. Women on death row are not housed in special death row units because few women go on death row.