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Comment on Christa Pike at 18 years old when she was sentenced to death. She is now 50 and they are supposed to kill her this week

kmartburrito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Pike, who is now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, one of their classmates at Knoxville Job Corps in 1995.

In case anyone else was curious about the crime she committed

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infeeeee@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They also tortured her a bit before the murder:

According to court testimony, for the next 30 minutes, Slemmer was taunted, beaten, and slashed. Shipp used a box cutter to carve a pentagram into her chest while she was still alive. Finally, Pike smashed Slemmer’s skull with a large chunk of asphalt, killing her.

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- Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Makes you wonder what Slemmer did to provoke the rage of a mentally ill child, it doesn’t usually stem from nothing.
  
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  - boonhet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    You don’t have to do much to make a teenager jealous. She thought Slemmer was going to steal her boyfriend so they went and killed her.
    
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Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
She killed one person and got life? i feel like people do way worse and get less

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- Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It was a pretty brutal and heinous murder.
  
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