Tennessee Court Sets Execution Date for the State’s Only Woman on Death Row and 3 Male Inmates

This undated photo released by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows Christa Pike (T-L), Gary Sutton (T-R), Tony Carruthers (B-R), and Anthony Darrell Hines. Tennessee Department of Correction via AP

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row.

Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow Knoxville Job Corps student. Slemmer, 18, was stabbed and beaten by Pike and Tadaryl Shipp, Pike’s boyfriend at the time, on the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural campus.