Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, is set to become the first female inmate executed in the state in more than 200 years — and her legal team is racing against the clock to change that. Pike is scheduled to be put to death on September 30, 2026, for the 1995 torture and murder of her fellow Knoxville Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer. She was sentenced to death in March 1996 when she was just 18 years old. Her looming execution has drawn national attention — not only because of its historic nature, but because of Pike’s unusual request in her final wee...