Christa Pike: Death Row Survivor

Christa Pike became one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in the United States after the 1995 case involving 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

More than 30 years later, the Christa Pike case returned to the headlines after an attempt to carry out her execution went badly wrong, reigniting debate around Tennessee’s death penalty and the long legal battle surrounding her sentence.

In this episode, I Could Murder A Podcast explores the full Christa Pike story, from the crime that put her on death row to the appeals, controversy and extraordinary events surrounding the failed execution.
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Presented by Tom Norris & Ben Carter
Written by Ben Carter
Produced by Dan J Lambert
Edited by Ben Bonsey
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