Christa Pike’s Shocking Fear Behind Execution Protocol Revealed Hours Before Death Sentence
After 30 years as the lone lady on Tennessee’s death row, Christa Pike is finally closing in on her lethal injection date this Wednesday, September 30th. Now, you’d think after all this time, she’d be bracing for the end like a seasoned pro, right? Well, not quite. Pike, 50, is staring down the grim reaper for a gruesome 1995 murder — but what’s really got her spooked is not the fate itself, but whether the execution team can even get the IV line in. I mean, who worries about needles when you’re facing death? That’s a curveball no one expected. At 18, Pike committed a horrific crime against her classmate Colleen Slemmer, the details of which send shivers down your spine. With chilling revelations and a fear so oddly specific, her story — as captured in the YouTube documentary Dead Woman Walking: Pike Vs Tennessee — leaves us wondering: can fear persist beyond even the darkest sentence? Dive into this twisted tale of crime, punishment, and human dread that’s as haunting as it is bizarre. LEARN MORE
After 30 years of being the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, Christa Pike is set to die by lethal injection on Wednesday (30 September). But there’s something she’s scared of.
Christa Pike, 50, is staring execution in the face for the murder of her Job Corps Centre classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995.
At the age of 18, she killed Slemmer alongside her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, and their friend Shadolla Peterson lured Slemmer to a remote area of the University of Tennessee’s agricultural campus, according to the Associated Press.
There, she was beaten, tortured, and killed her, before Pike allegedly kept a portion of her skull as a keepsake.
After being caught and arrested, Pike was sentenced to death at 20 years old in 1996 for her crimes.
Colleen Slemmer was killed by Christa Pike (Family Handout)
On Wednesday, if the execution proceeds, Pike will be the first woman put to death in Tennessee since 1819, and how she feels about that has been detailed in the new YouTube documentary Dead Woman Walking: Pike Vs Tennessee.
“I have the most horrible nightmares,” she says in the documentary. “But I think what has been worse is that they told me a year ahead of time. And so every day, I have woken up and lived that thought all day, every day, every waking moment.”
A big fear is that the team won’t be able to establish an IV line to inject the lethal concoction into her body.
“The only place they can draw my blood is in my hands with a very tiny needle, and I know from reading our protocol that they aren’t allowed to put the IV in my hands,” Pike says. “So I don’t know what they’re going to do, and I’m so scared that what just happened to Tony Carruthers will happen to me.”
Tennessee ended the attempt at Carruthers’ execution in May after it took over an hour to find the intravenous lines, which failed.
So, he was ultimately given a one-year reprieve from his death date.
Pike is imprisoned in Nashville (Tennessee Department of Corrections)
Pike’s crime against Slemmer has been well documented, with many shocking details being released over the years.
Tennessee Supreme Court docs obtained by news.com.au say Pike allegedly ‘told her friend Kim Iloilo, who was also a student at the facility, that she intended to kill another student, Colleen Slemmer, because she “had just felt mean that day”’.
“Pike went to Iloilo’s room and told Iloilo that she had just killed Slemmer and that she had brought back a piece of the victim’s skull as a souvenir,” the documents reveals.
“Pike said that a pentagram had been carved onto the victim’s forehead and chest. Iloilo said that Pike was dancing in a circle, smiling, and singing ‘la, la, la’ while she related these details about the murder.
“When Iloilo saw Pike at breakfast the next morning she asked Pike what she had done with the piece of the victim’s skull. Pike replied that it was in her pocket and then said, ‘And, yes, I’m eating breakfast with it’.”
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