em>By Shelia Burke, Associated Press</em>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The inmate at the center of a death row escape plot is expected back in court Thursday to fight a ...

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed Colleen Slemmer in 1995. Slemmer was found with a pentagram carved into her chest, and ...

Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

Christa Gail Pike, sentenced to death for brutally murdering her classmate over a boyfriend, is set to be executed on September 30, 2026. But now she’s making a chilling plea to stay alive, as the U.S ...

A federal court has denied a request to release and overturn the death penalty conviction for Christa Gail Pike, a former Knoxville resident who was sentenced two decades ago for the brutal torture ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row. Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture ...