# Christa Pike is about to be executed. What did she do?

https://mins.news/en/video/79133

- BBC News, 2026-09-29 18:00 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzuMt9Hv_SQ

> Christa Pike was 20 when she became the youngest woman on death row in the US. Thirty years later, she is due to be executed this week and would be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in nearly 200 years. Pike was convicted of brutally beating, torturing and murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

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