Christa Pike, the only woman currently serving a sentence on Tennessee’s death row, has been scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026.
In 1996, Pike was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of Collen Slemmer, a fellow Jobs Corps worker from Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike was 19 years old when the crime occurred. According to the Tennessee Department of Correction, at the time of her incarceration, she was the youngest person on death row at age 21.
Pike, now 49, will be the fourth woman to be executed in Tennessee and the first in over 200 years.