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Christa Pike

1976

Nationality
United States
Occupation
prisoner

Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer and one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period.

Incarceration history

Biography

Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer and one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. At 18 years old, Pike tortured and murdered her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995. She was convicted at age 20. Pike is set to be executed on September 30, 2026.