Tennessee set to execute first woman in more than two centuries

Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman for the first time in more than two centuries, after the state’s Supreme Court set the execution date for Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row.

Pike, Shipp and another friend lured Slemmer into the woods near the University of Tennessee’s agricultural campus on Jan. 12, 1995,

  1. Court records show Pike cut Slemmer’s throat with a box cutter, struck her with a cleaver, carved a pentagram into her chest and crushed her skull with a piece of asphalt.

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