Christa Pike, 50, is Tennessee’s only woman on death row and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on September 30, 2026. Pike was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, committed when Pike was 18.
Pike is now expressing remorse as her attorneys ask Gov. Bill Lee to commute her sentence to life without parole and pursue additional legal relief. If her execution proceeds, reports say she would be the first woman executed by Tennessee since 1819.