It’s been a long 30-year wait, but the day has almost arrived.
Next week, May Martinez plans to sit in the front row of a Tennessee execution chamber, clutching a picture of her late daughter as she watches her killer, Christa Pike, take her final breaths.
Pike, now 50, was just 18 when she lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow Job Corps student, to an isolated area of the University of Tennessee’s campus and subjected her to a torturous attack that ended in a fatal bludgeoning.
Convicted the following year, Pike became the youngest woman sentenced to death in the US. She is
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