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West Virginia native faces death penalty in Tennessee
Christa Pike, a 22 year old born in West Virginia and former Beckley resident, lost her appeal to Tennessee Supreme Court and faces execution for the January 12 1995 torture murder of Colleen A Slemmer. The case involved a pentagram carved into the victim and brutal multiple injuries. Pike's co defendants Tadaryl Shipp and Shadella Peterson received life and probation respectively. The ruling upholds the death sentence as appropriate with aggravating factors outweighing mitigating ones. Pike awaits lethal injection as the option of electrocution ends with the New Year.
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Pike
Tadaryl Shipp
Shadella R. Peterson
William Talman
Knoxville
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Register-Herald
U.S. Supreme Court
Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Talman
Bill Crabtree
Crabtree
High Court
Tennessee Prison For Women
Nashville
Pam Hobbins
Department of Corrections
Hobbins
Phil Keith
Shipp
Peterson
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