Christa Pike: 30 Years on Death Row, a Failed Execution & the Question of Justice
She was 18 years old when she committed murder. She was sentenced to death in 1996. Thirty years later, Christa Gail Pike survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her.
But how does someone spend three decades on death row? And what happens when the government attempts to carry out a death sentence—and the person survives?
In this episode of the Mama Rae Podcast, we investigate the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, the crime that led to Pike’s death sentence, and the decades of legal proceedings that followed.
We also examine the reported complications surrounding Pike’s September 30…
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