NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The State of Tennessee has scheduled the execution of Christa Gail Pike, an East Tennessee woman convicted in the torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer and the only woman on the state’s death row, for Sept. 30, 2026.

Pike was one of three people convicted in Slemmer’s 1995 murder, often referred to as the “Job Corps Murder.” She faced prosecution alongside her boyfriend Tiddell Shipp and Shadolla Peterson.

She was convicted of hitting Slemmer on the head with a chunk of asphalt, killing her. Prosecutors said she kept a portion of the girl’s skull as a souvenir.

At the time of the murder, Pike was 18, prompting an argument from her defense that she should face a lesser sentence than death. This, because she was only freshly an adult.

The motion to reopen Pike’s

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