{"id":14136,"date":"2026-02-19T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=14136"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:56:01","slug":"tennessee-death-row-case-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=14136","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Death Row Case Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A decades-old case in <strong>Tennessee<\/strong> is \u0432\u043d\u043e\u0432\u044c drawing national attention. More than 30 years after a 1995 killing in <strong>Knoxville<\/strong>, <strong>Christa Gail Pike<\/strong> remains the only woman on the state\u2019s death row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> A recent ruling by the <strong>Tennessee Supreme Court<\/strong> allows the state to move forward, renewing debate over capital punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Court records state Pike was 18 and enrolled in Job Corps when tensions arose with fellow student <strong>Colleen Slemmer<\/strong>. Prosecutors said a planned meeting in a secluded area turned violent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996, Pike was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. One co-defendant received life in prison, while another got a reduced sentence for cooperating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An execution is scheduled for September 30, 2026, though appeals continue. Defense attorneys cite abuse, trauma, and mental health concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If carried out, it would be Tennessee\u2019s first execution of a woman in nearly 200 years, highlighting the rarity and ongoing debate surrounding such cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decades-old case in Tennessee is \u0432\u043d\u043e\u0432\u044c drawing national attention. More than 30 years after a 1995 killing in Knoxville, Christa Gail Pike remains the only woman on the state\u2019s death row. A recent ruling by the Tennessee Supreme Court allows the state to move forward, renewing debate over capital punishment. Court records state Pike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14138,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14136\/revisions\/14138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}