What Did Christa Pike Do? Inside the Gruesome Crime That Landed Her on Death Row

Christa Pike is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row — one of 42 inmates awaiting execution in the state — and she is scheduled to be put to death on September 30, 2026, for a 1995 murder she committed as a teenager.

If the execution proceeds, Pike will become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. She is also slated to be the only person put to death in Tennessee “for a crime committed at age 18, 19 or 20 in the modern death penalty era,” the center reports.

Here’s a closer look at the crime, the case and Pike’s final legal battles.

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