The door closes. The countdown begins. In a windowless cell steps from the death chamber, Christa Pike is living the last hours the state has allowed her to have. No appeals left. No more second chances.In Tennessee’s most closely watched execution in decades, the final hours unfold with a cold, rehearsed precision. Pike, once an 18-year-old drifter who helped torture and kill fellow student Colleen Slemmer, is now a 50-year-old woman watched around the clock, every movement logged.
Graphic simulation shows what the last 24 hours of death row prisoners looks like ahead of Christa Pike’s expected execution today
