Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike became the youngest woman sentenced to death in the U.S. in modern times. She and her boyfriend brutally attacked fellow student Colleen Slemmer in Tennessee, driven ...

As a teenager, Christa Pike killed another young girl at a job training center. Now, the state has moved forward with plans to kill Pike. The Tennessee Supreme Court scheduled Pike's execution for ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...