Critics of Colleen Slemmer murder case argue Chirsta Pike doesn’t deserve the death penalty
Christa Pike, scheduled for execution on Sept. 30 for the brutal 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, is pleading with Tennessee’s governor for mercy.
The cameras cannot see her face yet, but her tiny shoulders, hitching violently upwards, tell the story.
Then the audible sobs fill the room.
Inside the Knox County Criminal Court that day, on Marc…