Job Corps

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, is back in the news over her scheduled execution. Pike was convicted in 1996 of murdering fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville and has spent decades appealing her death sentence. People are discussing the case and the prospect of Tennessee carrying out an execution of a female inmate.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's death row. Pike was convicted in 1995 for the torture murder of fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville. The decision ends, for now, her years of appeals, and the case is drawing wide attention because executions of women are rare in the United States.