Christa Pike

Row is making a few unusual requests as her execution draws near.

First, Christa Pike wants an all-female execution squad, claiming she'd been abused by men as a child.

Oh, God.

Her lawyers argue if men administer the lethal injection and there are any problems, the resulting trauma would violate her Eighth Amendment rights.

Hell yeah.

I'll sign, I'll sign up for watching.

Christa Pike has been on death row for 30 years after she and her then boyfriend were convicted of the 1995 murder of their friend, Colleen Slemmer, when they were all teenagers.

The details of that case are gruesome.

That was-

Well, and, like, last week, your Krista Pike.

Yep.

She, that needed to be talked about-

This is episode 186, the youngest woman on death row.

Krista Pike, the murder of Colleen Slemmer.

Colleen A. Slemmer was born on the 20th of September, 1975, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but she grew up mainly in Orange Park in Florida with her mother, May Martinez, and stepfather, Rahul Martinez.

Now, I'm going to preface this by saying that sadly, there is not a lot of information about Colleen out there, and this is one of those cases where the killer's life was much more wildly researched, but I will tell you what I can about Colleen.

And therefore, these programs started to become dangerous places where these few bad apples caused a lot of disruption.

Now, after the murder of Colleen, the Job Corps program in Tennessee actually basically fell apart and the building was torn down in the following years after this as well.

But back in 1995, Colleen had only been in attendance at Job Corps Tennessee for three months before her life was so brutally cut short after trusting these three fellow students, whose names are Krista Pike, Tadaryl Shipp, and Shandala Peterson.

Now, Krista Pike was born to parents Carissa Henson and Emile Pike in Beckley, West Virginia.

I know you're an attorney, so I have to bring this up, my conscience.

You know, the state of Tennessee is about to do something terrible, God forbid, that I believe, you may think this is a stretch, but I'm telling you, I believe it'll spell the end of Christendom, and that is if they execute Krista Pike.

who was a troubled 18-year-old teen at the time she committed the crime, and her lawyer did not put on an expert for mitigating evidence.

Okay, why

Even if she's affected by foreign substances, she's a mature adult.

She could still weigh the consequences.

But this woman, it was suggested that in the case of Krista Pike, who's now 50, she knew what was right or wrong.

She might be suffering from mental illness.

Okay, well, let me just say that we've got another execution next week, another Florida execution, another Texas execution, and then at the end of the month, on the 29th, another Florida one, and then one in Tennessee.

Krista Pike will be the next woman.

There's not a woman executed since 2021 in the United States.

That was a federal execution, so we've got...

You're

talking about Krista Pike, right?

That is correct.

So here is my whole thing, is the judicial system.

They were convicted.

They were sent to Jefferson City, Missouri, to the gas chamber, and they were dead 82 days after the crime they committed.

This Krista Pike has been alive 10,000-plus days longer than her victims.

What happened to the judicial system in the United States of America?