In 1995, the American woman was convicted of torturing and murdering her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in Knoxville when she was 18. Pike was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• In 1995, the American woman was convicted of torturing and murdering her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in Knoxville when she was 18. After spending 30 years on death row, she was scheduled to be killed by pentobarbital injection on Wednesday.S1

• Pike was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.S2

• Internewscast Internewscast Tennessee’s first scheduled execution of a woman in 200 years was halted… This Post: Tennessee Inmate Christa Pike’s Execution Halted an Hour Before Death first appeared on InternewscastS3

• Christa Pike was going to be executed in Tennessee today, having been convicted of a murder she committed aged 18 in 1995S4

• Pike, now 50, was scheduled to be executed Wednesday morning by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in NashvilleS5