Unique way Christa Pike, 50, has asked to be killed before execution tomorrow

Tennessee is poised to execute Christa Pike, the state’s only female death-row prisoner, for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. For Colleen’s mother, who once watched her daughter’s broken skull passed around a courtroom, the looming execution feels less like closure than a brutal, necessary ending. She plans to sit front continue reading …